Re: Silk visualisations - survey and questionnaire

Hi all,

Would just like to thank those of you who have so far participated in the
Silk survey.  Also, for anyone interested in trying the visualisation tool
on their own computer, I have created a link to the WAR file:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1801039/silk-visualisations.war


Thank you,
troy giunipero


On 3 August 2011 18:40, troy a. giunipero <giunipero@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I apologise for the wide distribution, but I would like to reach as many
> Silk users as possible.  I have created a visualisation tool that aims to
> help Silk users evaluate output files that are in Alignment format:
>
> http://silk-visualisations.appspot.com/
>
>
> This project is the basis for an MSc thesis, which I am currently working
> on.
>
> I have also created a brief survey and questionnaire related to Silk and
> the visualisations, in order to help me perform an analysis of the tool:
>
>    - Survey on usage of the Silk Framework<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KZ35YGR>
>    - Questionnaire on Silk visualisations<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KZ5J76D>
>
> Could I please ask you to take a few minutes and complete the survey and
> questionnaire?  Both contain only about 10 questions each.
>
> I would like to offer up to five *€20 Amazon vouchers* for people willing
> to complete the questionnaire.  If you are interested and have large
> Alignment files (over 1 MB), I would urge you to run the application on your
> computer.***  (I would send you a WAR file or NetBeans project and gladly
> help you get set up - would only take 5 - 10 minutes - please contact me).
>
> The information from the survey and questionnaire is intended solely for my
> thesis.  IP addresses are not stored in the survey/questionnaire results.
>  Upon completion, you would have a chance to see the overall results, but
> any textual input is omitted.
>
> Thank you, and kind regards,
>
> Troy Giunipero
>
>
> *** One limitation with the online demo is that it is hosted on Google App
> Engine, which places a time restriction ( ~30 seconds ) on the request.
>  Therefore, it will simply time-out when large files are being parsed, and
> return a status 500 message.  The application itself is capable of parsing
> large files, e.g., two 5 MB files take approximately 3.5 minutes on a 2.4
> GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4 GB of memory.
>
>