ICCS Summer School presentation, draft 1

[rolyp]

1h30m presentation on Fluid. Using this issue to think about overall high-level structure and any new implementation subtasks.

• [x] [Achintya] Initial skeleton in RevealJS
• [x] List Cambridge affliations as Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge
• [x] Add Science Communication Unit to Achintya’s UWE Bristol affiliation
• [x] Start thinking about how explorable-viz/fluid#924 will interface with presentation
  • [x] [Achintya] Can we embed individual div into Reveal.js? – Sadly, no. :(
• [x] [Roly] Demo – what we can do today
  • [x] Line chart/bar chart (renewables)
  • [x] Matrix convolution
  • [x] Scatterplot
• [x] Motivating Problems: start with this and then go to data-viz CYOA
  • [x] Trust and accountability
  • [x] “Clean” power stations burning wood chips sourced from pristine rainforest in British Colombia
  • [x] Example of IPCC report data sources
  • [x] Reproducibility
    • [x] Tomas’ medical study reproducibility example?
  • [x] Science communication and education – examples from e.g. Distill (see convolution example)
• [x] [Roly] Language Overview section
  • [x] High-level summary
  • [x] What’s missing from the language
  • Modules/imports
  • Loading from file/URL
  • Data type definitions
  • [x] What’s missing from the toolchain
• [x] Current authoring workflow
  • Needs PureScript
  • Create FigSpec
• [x] [Roly] Focus so far as been on UX – want to shift focus now to author experience

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High-level plan

Duration	Who	What
30m	Achintya	Goals and motivation Plans for interactive essays Plans for authoring tools
45m	Roly	Examples Language overview Current workflow
15m	Roly + Achintya	Discussion

[rolyp]

@RaoOfPhysics Would you be able to send me ~100 bio for the ICCS Summer School programme? (Ideally today as needs to be sent to the printer on Monday.) Thanks 🙏

[RaoOfPhysics]

(Can’t seem to assign this to myself as well, for some reason. Can you?)

[RaoOfPhysics]

Bio sent! :)

[rolyp]

@RaoOfPhysics I’ve implemented explorable-viz/fluid#1012, with the caveat that the “standalone” figures are not yet published via f.luid.org, which only publishes from release and provides no way of seeing anything only on develop. So the next opportunity to get the standalone images onto the website will be when we implement explorable-viz/fluid#924. For the Summer School, we can run the presentation from fluid-examples (or locally, it doesn’t matter), but the demos will be hosted locally.

[rolyp]

@RaoOfPhysics Ok, I’ve made a pass over the presentation, tweaking some of the high-level structure – e.g. I’ve moved the bit about “forging connections to other researchers” to the end and called it “how can we help you tell a story with your data” (i.e. an invitation). I’ve included the three examples we have but haven’t yet put any discussion/narrative around them.

I’ve also made a pass over the todo list at the top to consolidate what’s done/what I think is still to be done! I’ll be offline (completely) now until Tue 2 July, so I’ll catch up with everything then. Feel free to push on any aspect of presentation where you have an idea of how it could be fleshed out/improved!

[rolyp]

@RaoOfPhysics Overall thought: I think the discussion about “kinds of user” might come better after the demos – because otherwise what Fluid actually is/does is still quite abstract and so going into detail about specific user groups might not work. Have a think and maybe play around with putting it afterwards? (Maybe it can lead into the section on “Authoring with Fluid”.)