Tutorials/Vis2009

Vis 2009 Tutorial

After discussion, it seems that the tutorial is best broken into two distinct pieces: A user-centric portion focused on using VisTrails, and a power-user or developer-centric portion focusing on plug-ins, mashups, etc.

Working Outline

• Introduction to Provenance and VisTrails (1h 30m) - Presenter: Claudio/Erik/Juliana/Manu (?)
  • Brief view of plugins and released features of VisTrails

• Basic hands-on usage of VisTrails (1h 30m) - Presenter: Manu (?)
  • Building Simple Pipelines
  • Using PythonSource
  • Connecting to databases
  • VisTrails as a Server

• Advanced hands-on usage of VisTrails (1h 30m) - Presenter: Erik
  • This will all be in the context of a very specific example - My first thought was to use Gil's data, as it has many very nice features that build a nice story, but problems with releasing data are pushing me towards a CMOP example.
  • Organizational principles of the History Tree - QBE, Analogies, Parameter Exploration -> New Version
  • vtkInteractionHandlers - Slicing and dicing data
  • PythonSource as callback definition - Picking specific elements
  • The workflow debugger

• Developing a plug-in (30-40m) - Presenter: Manu (?)
  • Plug-in architecture overview
  • Different implementation strategies
  • ParaView Plug-in demo

• New Extensions to VisTrails (50-60m) - Presenter: Claudio/Erik/Juliana/Manu (?)
  • Display Wall
  • Provenance Rich Publications
  • Mashups
  • Repository
  • Web-based execution (?)