A variety of visualization techniques have been developed to present time series data, but in this assignment, you will gain firsthand experience in this domain by creating your own representation(s).

The focus of the exercise is your own resume or curriculum vita. This document contains your academic and work experience and serves as a capsule summary of your qualifications when you may be looking for a job. Common sections on resumes include personal information, education, work experience, projects, skills, publciations, and so on. You should print out your resume (or make one if you don't already have one) and use it as the basis for this assignment.

Your task is to develop a visual representation of your resume. Actually, the textual description you likely already have is a visual representation, and probably is a pretty good one. But think about other capabilities that a more visual, graphical representation might provide. Again, start by thinking about the tasks that a person examining such a visualization might perform. What would a person want to know about this data set (ie, your background and experience)? What perspective on the data set would the person want to see? Since you may not have held many positions or been at many schools, your resume might be a little sparse with information. But think about people such as professors who have 50-100 page curriculum vitae. How would all that information fit into one visualization? Just as in the last assignment, simply draw your visualization on paper (you can use computer drawing tools if you want).

What to turn in: Turn in your visualization. Simply submit the drawing or drawings that you did. Also, explain how the visualization "works". What is represented? Provide a brief (about one page) textual description of your representation in which you provide an overview of the idea, what it communicates, why it would be useful, etc.

Grading: I will evaluate the ability of your visualization to clearly and usefully communicate information about your resume. How effectively does your visualization capture all this information and present it in a form that clear, understandable, and useful? One component of the evaluation will the creativity and innovation of your design. Just being different for different's sake is not what we are seeking, but unique, new and effective ideas are highly valued. Another evaluation dimension is the quality of your short textual summary of the visualization and analysis of its utility.

ps. If you do a really good job, this visualization may be something that you include with your resume in the future!