jingyaodou / uiuc_visual_class

Page for: https://uiuc-ischool-dataviz.github.io/is445_bcubcg_fall2022/

Course Template

This repository is a template for managing coursework using GitHub pages. It uses the theme dinky, nbviewer.js, and reveal.js for presenting material.

For each week of class, create a subdirectory weekZZ (where ZZ is the week of the class) and place any .ipynb and .md files in that directory. Lectures can utilize the layout lecture, which will present them in revealjs.

NOTE for instructors: If you are online (or even in person), one suggestion I got from students was to be able to have "real time" access to the in class notebooks. This was accomplished by having a little auto-commit script going on in the background

cd YOUR_PATH_GOES_HERE/is445_spring2022; while :; do clear; source auto_commit.sh; sleep 30; done

I couldn't get crontab to work (I think it has to do with the user-key/ssh permissions something something), but that is probably a much more elegant solution.

To run locally

bundle exec jekyll serve -l

Notes on Course Materials

This course was a 3 hour online version of this course in person.

As of Fall 2020, this section and the section developed in parallel by Matthew Turk have diverged somewhat. Occasionally, contributions will be passed back and forth and the commit message history may not reflect the original authorship.

These two repositories have been developed in collaboration, and authorship is shared between Jill Naiman and Matthew Turk.

Notes on common errors

jekyll 3.9.0 | Error: No such file or directory @ realpath_rec

• hack: touch /Users/jillnaiman/is445_spring2022/week03/[email protected]

Sometimes you have to re-install the bundle, to do this delete the Gemfile.lock and run bundle install