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CSC 477 Assignment 4 Peer Review

In this assignment, you will review the Assignment 4 submissions of two of your peers, and you will receive feedback from two of your peers.

The goals of this assignment are threefold:

  1. To use a systematic approach to provide constructive feedback to your peers about their interactive visualizations.
  2. To gain insights into others’ ideas given the same constraints as you, and to reflect on your own work.
  3. To receive and reflect on constructive feedback about your own work.

Task

There are two parts to this assignment.

First, you need to make your submission available for peer review. Find the Canvas Discussion entitled “A4 Peer Review Thumbnails” and make a post with the following information:

Second, you will be assigned two peer submissions to review. You’ll receive these review assignments by email, so keep an eye out for that. Once you receive your review assignments, find them in Canvas, and consider them critically, answering the questions below.

Because you will all be reviewing public Observable notebooks, these reviews will be single-anonymous. You will know whose submissions you’re reviewing, but they will receive your feedback anonymously.

Write your review constructively and respectfully. Not adhering to this will result in a zero for this assignment.

Consider the following questions when writing your review:

Deliverable

Submit your reviews as two PDFs in Canvas. Each PDF should contain answers to each of the questions above, and any other comments you have about the visualization. Please include the questions in your PDF, and then provide your answers below each question.

Name your PDFs as follows: AuthorName1.pdf and AuthorName2.pdf, where AuthorName1 and AuthorName2 are the names of the authors of the submissions you are reviewing. Do not include your own name in the PDF.

I suggest that you focus each of your answers in your review around one or more of the following phrases:

You may also say:

These are obviously not the only types of feedback you may have, but centering around these sentiments should help keep our reviews constructive.

Grading

You will receive a grade based on the following criteria, in increasing order of importance.

For full credit, both your reviews should include at least one statement in each of the “I like…”, “I suggest…”, and “What if…” categories.

Finally, here is another reminder that inappropriate or disrespectful feedback will automatically result in a zero for this assignment.

Acknowledgement

This assignment was adapted from a similar assignment in CSE 442 at the University of Washington, taught by Jeffrey Heer.