DSCI 531: Peer Review
Due Wednesday, Nov 7 at 18:00 (although you should be able to finish in lecture).
Objective
You and your hackathon team members are to provide feedback on another hackathon team’s graph – or at least, whatever they have of the graph!
The Feedback Session
Between 0940-0956 in Lecture 8, you will be engaging in a feedback session, composed of three stages:
- Fly-on-the-wall (we suggest 1 minute): The reviewers verbally communicate what they learn from the graph, without any input from the creators, while the creators watch. The reviewers should speak their thought process – “think out loud”, but the creators can’t talk, and can’t even gesture!
- Informed-run (we suggest 1 minute): The creators fill the reviewers in on the graph’s intended message.
- Written + Verbal feedback (we suggest 5 minutes): The reviewers write feedback as a github issue on one of the reviewee’s hackathon repos.
Tips on giving feedback:
Your feedback only needs to be a “brain dump” (doesn’t need polishing). But it should still be thoughtful and useful. Here are some tips on giving feedback:
- State what’s good about the work. Why is it good? State what needs improvement. Why does it need improvement? But never charge those things with emotion. Be objective.
- Feedback should offer suggestions on how to improve the vis in addition to noting weaknesses of the current version.
- There’s always something that can be said! It’s okay to give feedback about the strong parts of the vis, however a vis can always be improved.
What you should submit here
rubric={writing:10, reasoning:90}
Fill the following in:
- Your hackathon group members (names AND github.ubc.ca usernames): FILL_THIS_IN
- Link to the github Issue containing the feedback that your team gave: FILL_THIS_IN