Claudio Silva

Claudio Silva

Institute Professor, New York University

CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for Claude Code when working with Claudio Silva’s academic website (Jekyll/GitHub Pages at ctsilva.github.io).

Quick Commands

# Setup
bundle install --path vendor/bundle

# Local server (http://127.0.0.1:4000/)
bundle exec jekyll liveserve

# JavaScript build
npm run build:js

Mermaid Diagrams (for Quarto slides)

# Setup
npm install -g @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

# Generate PNGs from .mmd files
cd 2025-VisML-CSE/slides
python3 render_mermaid.py

# Manual generation
mmdc -i input.mmd -o output.png -w 800 -H 600 -t default -b transparent

Note: Always use PNG generation for RevealJS slides (inline mermaid doesn’t render reliably).

Site Structure

Jekyll Collections

  • _publications, _talks, _teaching, _portfolio, _posts, _pages
  • Publications in _pages/publications.md (chronological 2024→1996)
  • Media coverage in _pages/news.md (resilient linking with search fallbacks)

Key Files

  • _config.yml: Main configuration
  • markdown_generator/: Scripts for generating content from TSV/BibTeX

Course Websites

The repository includes complete course websites as subdirectories:

  • 2024-VisML-CDS: VisML (Visualization for Machine Learning) course website (Spring 2024, NYU CDS) - ARCHIVE
  • 2025-InfoVis-CSE: Information Visualization course website (Fall 2025, NYU Tandon) - CS-GY 6313 ✅ Week 3 COMPLETE
  • 2025-VisML-CSE: Visualization for Machine Learning course website (Fall 2025, NYU Tandon) - CS-GY 9223 🎉 100% READY

2025-VisML-CSE (CS-GY 9223)

  • Schedule: Mondays 5-7:30PM (Sept 2-Dec 11), Room 473
  • Status: Week 11 (NLP and LLMs) COMPLETE ✅
  • Discord: https://discord.gg/dyHSFN65
  • Materials: week2-intro, week2-infovis, week2-lab, week4-model-assessment, week5-white-box, week6-black-box, week7-deep-learning, week11-nlp

Course Material Enhancement Workflow

Trigger: “PLAN to do these updates for Week X”

  1. Rename generic figures: paperX.png → descriptive-name.png
  2. Standardize citations: Add footer citations with DOI links
  3. Add theoretical content: Include foundational slides with speaker notes
  4. Optimize for projector: Light code backgrounds, large centered videos
  5. Quality check: Render, test links, commit with descriptive messages
  6. Update docs: Mark week complete in CLAUDE.md

2025-InfoVis-CSE (CS-GY 6313)

  • Schedule: Fridays 11AM-1:30PM (Sept 5-Dec 13), Room 215
  • Status: Week 3 COMPLETE
  • Discord: https://discord.gg/sTEv3PnP
  • Materials: week2-data-transformation, week3-fundamental-graphs
  • Resources: home.md, syllabus.md, schedule.md, slides/, labs/

Quarto Slide Creation

# Render slides
cd 2025-InfoVis-CSE/slides/
quarto render week1-syllabus.qmd

# Preview with live reload
quarto preview week1-syllabus.qmd

# Commit both HTML and _files/ directories
git add week1-syllabus.html week1-syllabus_files/
git commit -m "Add Week 1 slides"

Template header:

---
title: "Title"
subtitle: "CS-GY 6313 - Fall 2025"
author: "Name"
format:
  revealjs:
    theme: [default, custom.scss]
    logo: figs/vida.jpg
    width: 1920
    height: 1080
---

Reference Management

PDF Naming: LastName_Year_Short_Title.pdf

Footer Citations:

:::footer
Author, A. (Year). [*Title*](../refs/Author_Year_Title.pdf). Venue.
:::

Venue Abbreviations: IEEE TVCG, CHI, ICML, AISTATS, ECML-PKDD