Presented by Lea Synefakis-Pica for Analytics That Excite 2014
Even the most seasoned analyst can make very simple changes to a presentations to make a big impact. If everyone in your audience is catching up on email or sleep, chances are your presentation design and/or data charts are obscuring your valuable insights and hurting you rather than helping you. Lea can help you inspire action and build credibility with a fresh new toolbox of tips and techniques to set your presentations apart and get the results you’re looking for.
How ANYONE can make insanely better slidesSean Johnson
My wife was showing me slides from a meeting she recently attended. I’m sure the material was great, but I didn’t read to find out. The slides literally made my eyes bleed.
Between my time as a partner at an early stage venture fund and a digital consulting company, I effectively live in Keynote. Creating proposals, reading pitch decks, making presentations.
I am convinced great slide-making is a tremendous skill to develop. It will make your internal presentations more persuasive. It will help you win more business or close that round of funding. It will accelerate your career.
You’ve no doubt seen gorgeous presentations at conferences and other events, but don’t know how to make them.
But you don’t need to know how to make those kinds of presentations for your day job. What you need are some simple tips for polishing up your decks. Making copy more readable. Making tables and charts more useful. Telling the story you’re trying to tell.
This deck is my attempt to help you with that. I hope you find it useful.
Secrets to impactful presentations volume 2 - 8 toolsHavain
What tools do experts use to create and deliver powerful presentations? We set out to find the answer by interviewing the people we have worked and people we think have interesting views to presentations.
Here´s eight tools to replace or complement PowerPoint in your next presentation.
If you want to discuss presentation creation or design.
Contact: timo@havain.fi / @Timo_Havain (Twitter) / linkedin.com/in/timosorri -
Find out about our professional presentation design services.
To see more of our presentations, visit https://www.exaltus.ca or sign up to our email list (https://www.exaltus.ca/email) to receive actionable marketing tips in your inbox a couple of times per month!
10 Killer Tips for an Amazing Presentation - Way Before You Actually Give OneSlide Studio
Some months ago, we shared a blog post with 10 killer tips on how to prepare yourself for an amazing PowerPoint presentation. Now we've created a SlideShare that gives you these presentation tips in a visual and engaging way.
About Slide Studio: We are a group of presentation designers that can help you make your PowerPoint presentation more engaging. Drop us a link if you want more info.
How to Deliver Presentations that ACTUALLY Drive SalesRoss Simmonds
From: www.rosssimmonds.com
Wondering how to leverage your presentations to drive meaningful and measurable results? Whether it's on Slideshare or in person - This guide will demonstrate exactly what you need to do in your presentation to drive sales.
Every content marketing and B2B marketer should see this guide as a resource to creating decks and presentations that break through the noise. For more information on breaking through the noise, download Stand Out: The Content Marketing Guide for entrepreneurs: www.standoutguide.com
Building Buy-In: Internally Positioning UX for Executive ImpactJohn Whalen
Why can’t other people in your organization see what you see? That UX insights you uncovered will revolutionize your company and delight your customers like never before! Doesn’t everyone “get” UX nowadays?
The truth is more complicated than just recognizing UX value: Your professional goals and focus are different than those of others in your organization (e.g., C-Suite, Product Managers, Marketers, Developers) by design. What to do? Learn how to position and present your work for maximum uptake to ensure UX has a sizeable and valuable impact on your products and customer experience.
We reveal what we have learned – often the hard way – about linking UX research and design with organizational goals and strategic directives. With a little planning, you can to ensure your creative UX work has an influence and actually sees the light of day when the product is launched.
#UXPA2016
How ANYONE can make insanely better slidesSean Johnson
My wife was showing me slides from a meeting she recently attended. I’m sure the material was great, but I didn’t read to find out. The slides literally made my eyes bleed.
Between my time as a partner at an early stage venture fund and a digital consulting company, I effectively live in Keynote. Creating proposals, reading pitch decks, making presentations.
I am convinced great slide-making is a tremendous skill to develop. It will make your internal presentations more persuasive. It will help you win more business or close that round of funding. It will accelerate your career.
You’ve no doubt seen gorgeous presentations at conferences and other events, but don’t know how to make them.
But you don’t need to know how to make those kinds of presentations for your day job. What you need are some simple tips for polishing up your decks. Making copy more readable. Making tables and charts more useful. Telling the story you’re trying to tell.
This deck is my attempt to help you with that. I hope you find it useful.
Secrets to impactful presentations volume 2 - 8 toolsHavain
What tools do experts use to create and deliver powerful presentations? We set out to find the answer by interviewing the people we have worked and people we think have interesting views to presentations.
Here´s eight tools to replace or complement PowerPoint in your next presentation.
If you want to discuss presentation creation or design.
Contact: timo@havain.fi / @Timo_Havain (Twitter) / linkedin.com/in/timosorri -
Find out about our professional presentation design services.
To see more of our presentations, visit https://www.exaltus.ca or sign up to our email list (https://www.exaltus.ca/email) to receive actionable marketing tips in your inbox a couple of times per month!
10 Killer Tips for an Amazing Presentation - Way Before You Actually Give OneSlide Studio
Some months ago, we shared a blog post with 10 killer tips on how to prepare yourself for an amazing PowerPoint presentation. Now we've created a SlideShare that gives you these presentation tips in a visual and engaging way.
About Slide Studio: We are a group of presentation designers that can help you make your PowerPoint presentation more engaging. Drop us a link if you want more info.
How to Deliver Presentations that ACTUALLY Drive SalesRoss Simmonds
From: www.rosssimmonds.com
Wondering how to leverage your presentations to drive meaningful and measurable results? Whether it's on Slideshare or in person - This guide will demonstrate exactly what you need to do in your presentation to drive sales.
Every content marketing and B2B marketer should see this guide as a resource to creating decks and presentations that break through the noise. For more information on breaking through the noise, download Stand Out: The Content Marketing Guide for entrepreneurs: www.standoutguide.com
Building Buy-In: Internally Positioning UX for Executive ImpactJohn Whalen
Why can’t other people in your organization see what you see? That UX insights you uncovered will revolutionize your company and delight your customers like never before! Doesn’t everyone “get” UX nowadays?
The truth is more complicated than just recognizing UX value: Your professional goals and focus are different than those of others in your organization (e.g., C-Suite, Product Managers, Marketers, Developers) by design. What to do? Learn how to position and present your work for maximum uptake to ensure UX has a sizeable and valuable impact on your products and customer experience.
We reveal what we have learned – often the hard way – about linking UX research and design with organizational goals and strategic directives. With a little planning, you can to ensure your creative UX work has an influence and actually sees the light of day when the product is launched.
#UXPA2016
Product Management Class for Digital StartupsMiet Claes
Practical tips and inspiration for how to manage your digital product, for the selected startups at Idealabs 2016.
Course Material:
Creating Personas + Template
http://miet.be/why-personas-haunt-your-company-and-how-to-ghost-bust-their-ass-free-template/
Feature Spec Template
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nNDnzc4c3LWz5Dlh8jFCMApY6CQ_s8I23c3ej11E2mg/edit?usp=sharing
Big Bertha Template
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fwm4segHofoPzzG5BYzJOAb2gfpggCNx4rZWzwA7iO4/edit?usp=sharing
Bug Reporting Checklist
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1of8cpDEC4sZMr3FK3O-OaBemppqi55IGS2Qus3n-H9c/edit?usp=sharing
Seven Common Webinar Mistakes and How to Avoid ThemWiley
There are many common webinar mistakes that can prevent an otherwise excellent presentation from getting the praise and attention it deserves. Here we share some tips and tricks to help you avoid these pitfalls and pull off a successful webinar.
One Point Per Slide – Why It’s Important and How to Do ItStinson
PowerPoint presentations have come a long way from bullet points and ClipArt. Presentations have evolved with not only the presenter and the audience, but also our preference to be moved and not sold to. One of the biggest presentation trends is having only one point per slide. Check out our presentation to see why having only one point per slide is important!
For more presentation help, visit stinsondesign.com/blog
Watch the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM7r-7WrheY&feature=youtu.be
Watch the video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/188030855
We held the largest ever Virtual SlideShare Summit a week back, if you missed it here's your chance to hear from the experts once more on some of the takeaways on presentation design and SlideShare Marketing
7 Habits of Breakthrough Entrepreneurs - Casual Connect 2015Amy Jo Kim
It’s easier than ever to create a startup around a new, innovative idea. But most startups fail -- and most innovative products never take off. What differentiates the projects that DO take off? What habits, behaviors and attitudes are shared by the teams who create genre-defining hits? In this talk, you’ll learn the 7 habits of breakthrough innovators - brought to life with front-line stories from the early days of eBay, Ultima Online, The Sims, Rock Band, Covet Fashion, Happify, Lumosity and Pley. You’ll come away with a smarter approach to innovative product design - and practical, actionable design shortcuts you can use right away to turbo-charge your path towards product/market fit.
You suck at ppt - an add-on for corporate presentersStinson
"You suck at ppt - an add-on for corporate presenters" is a small add-on review of Jessedee's famous presentation "You Suck at Powerpoint!". We analyze a few points made by Jessedee which may apply to conference speakers but do not apply to corporate presenters.
How to Start a Podcast - An Introduction to PodcastingKyle Bondo
Find Your Gaggle - Start a Podcast!
Learn what it takes to become a podcaster in just 90-minutes!
Podcasting is a fantastic medium for sharing your passions and ideas with other people. Thanks to the explosion of smartphones and mobile devices, podcasting has now become a most direct and intimate way to communicate to your people who share the same interests when they are AWAY from their computer. Now with over 300,000 podcasts available in iTunes on every topic from technology to basket weaving, podcasting has emerged from peoples basements and into the mainstream. Join Kyle Bondo -- podcaster and founder of Gagglepod -- for a Meetup Talk about what podcasting is, how podcasting works, and how YOU can become a podcaster too!
Presented by Kyle Bondo at Germanna Community College in Fredericksburg, VA on February 12th, 2018 as part of the Gagglepod (gagglepod.com) monthly podcasters meetup.
Ideas on how to create powerful presentationsCiprian Rusen
A guide for Project Managers on how to create great presentations.
Handouts plus other information can be found here:
http://corporategeek.info/how-to-create-powerful-presentations
Here are some simple tips/hacks which are very helpful in designing a presentation. These hacks do not need any special knowledge. All material required for the hack is included in the presentation itself.
[CXL Live 16] How To Present Your Testing Results to Get Results by Lea PicaCXL
Are your executives and clients falling asleep during your testing presentations? Chances are your slide design and data visualizations are obscuring your valuable insights. With her special blend of neuroscience-based visualization principles, practical hands-on design techniques, and entertaining “tough love”, Lea will equip you with a fresh new toolbox that will get you and your data presentations remembered and acted upon.
The elements of product success for designers and developersNick Myers
All software, whether it's for consumers or workers, needs to meet the ever growing demands people have in today’s world. Greater user expectations and influence are forcing companies to create and deliver better products, but not every organization has a rich heritage in software creation like tech giants Apple and Google. Most companies need to be more customer-focused, become design specialists, and transform their cultures as they shift to become both software makers and innovators.
Myers, head of design services at Cooper, will share the elements of product success that companies need to possess and be market leaders: user insight, design, and organization. Myers will share principles and techniques that successful innovative companies use to truly understand their customers. He’ll also discuss the methods effective designers use to support their customers and create breakthrough ideas and delightful experiences. And he’ll finish by sharing the magic formula organizations need to deliver ground-breaking experiences to market.
This talk was given at UX Day.
Product Management Class for Digital StartupsMiet Claes
Practical tips and inspiration for how to manage your digital product, for the selected startups at Idealabs 2016.
Course Material:
Creating Personas + Template
http://miet.be/why-personas-haunt-your-company-and-how-to-ghost-bust-their-ass-free-template/
Feature Spec Template
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nNDnzc4c3LWz5Dlh8jFCMApY6CQ_s8I23c3ej11E2mg/edit?usp=sharing
Big Bertha Template
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fwm4segHofoPzzG5BYzJOAb2gfpggCNx4rZWzwA7iO4/edit?usp=sharing
Bug Reporting Checklist
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1of8cpDEC4sZMr3FK3O-OaBemppqi55IGS2Qus3n-H9c/edit?usp=sharing
Seven Common Webinar Mistakes and How to Avoid ThemWiley
There are many common webinar mistakes that can prevent an otherwise excellent presentation from getting the praise and attention it deserves. Here we share some tips and tricks to help you avoid these pitfalls and pull off a successful webinar.
One Point Per Slide – Why It’s Important and How to Do ItStinson
PowerPoint presentations have come a long way from bullet points and ClipArt. Presentations have evolved with not only the presenter and the audience, but also our preference to be moved and not sold to. One of the biggest presentation trends is having only one point per slide. Check out our presentation to see why having only one point per slide is important!
For more presentation help, visit stinsondesign.com/blog
Watch the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM7r-7WrheY&feature=youtu.be
Watch the video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/188030855
We held the largest ever Virtual SlideShare Summit a week back, if you missed it here's your chance to hear from the experts once more on some of the takeaways on presentation design and SlideShare Marketing
7 Habits of Breakthrough Entrepreneurs - Casual Connect 2015Amy Jo Kim
It’s easier than ever to create a startup around a new, innovative idea. But most startups fail -- and most innovative products never take off. What differentiates the projects that DO take off? What habits, behaviors and attitudes are shared by the teams who create genre-defining hits? In this talk, you’ll learn the 7 habits of breakthrough innovators - brought to life with front-line stories from the early days of eBay, Ultima Online, The Sims, Rock Band, Covet Fashion, Happify, Lumosity and Pley. You’ll come away with a smarter approach to innovative product design - and practical, actionable design shortcuts you can use right away to turbo-charge your path towards product/market fit.
You suck at ppt - an add-on for corporate presentersStinson
"You suck at ppt - an add-on for corporate presenters" is a small add-on review of Jessedee's famous presentation "You Suck at Powerpoint!". We analyze a few points made by Jessedee which may apply to conference speakers but do not apply to corporate presenters.
How to Start a Podcast - An Introduction to PodcastingKyle Bondo
Find Your Gaggle - Start a Podcast!
Learn what it takes to become a podcaster in just 90-minutes!
Podcasting is a fantastic medium for sharing your passions and ideas with other people. Thanks to the explosion of smartphones and mobile devices, podcasting has now become a most direct and intimate way to communicate to your people who share the same interests when they are AWAY from their computer. Now with over 300,000 podcasts available in iTunes on every topic from technology to basket weaving, podcasting has emerged from peoples basements and into the mainstream. Join Kyle Bondo -- podcaster and founder of Gagglepod -- for a Meetup Talk about what podcasting is, how podcasting works, and how YOU can become a podcaster too!
Presented by Kyle Bondo at Germanna Community College in Fredericksburg, VA on February 12th, 2018 as part of the Gagglepod (gagglepod.com) monthly podcasters meetup.
Ideas on how to create powerful presentationsCiprian Rusen
A guide for Project Managers on how to create great presentations.
Handouts plus other information can be found here:
http://corporategeek.info/how-to-create-powerful-presentations
Here are some simple tips/hacks which are very helpful in designing a presentation. These hacks do not need any special knowledge. All material required for the hack is included in the presentation itself.
[CXL Live 16] How To Present Your Testing Results to Get Results by Lea PicaCXL
Are your executives and clients falling asleep during your testing presentations? Chances are your slide design and data visualizations are obscuring your valuable insights. With her special blend of neuroscience-based visualization principles, practical hands-on design techniques, and entertaining “tough love”, Lea will equip you with a fresh new toolbox that will get you and your data presentations remembered and acted upon.
The elements of product success for designers and developersNick Myers
All software, whether it's for consumers or workers, needs to meet the ever growing demands people have in today’s world. Greater user expectations and influence are forcing companies to create and deliver better products, but not every organization has a rich heritage in software creation like tech giants Apple and Google. Most companies need to be more customer-focused, become design specialists, and transform their cultures as they shift to become both software makers and innovators.
Myers, head of design services at Cooper, will share the elements of product success that companies need to possess and be market leaders: user insight, design, and organization. Myers will share principles and techniques that successful innovative companies use to truly understand their customers. He’ll also discuss the methods effective designers use to support their customers and create breakthrough ideas and delightful experiences. And he’ll finish by sharing the magic formula organizations need to deliver ground-breaking experiences to market.
This talk was given at UX Day.
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"A scenario is a description of a person’s interaction with a system.
Scenarios help focus design efforts on the user’s requirements, which are distinct from technical or business requirements.
Scenarios may be related to ‘use cases’, which describe interactions at a technical level. Unlike use cases, however, scenarios can be understood by people who do not have any technical background. They are therefore suitable for use during participatory design activities." http://infodesign.com.au/usabilityresources/scenarios/
Brian Clifton Keynote at Analytics That ExciteInfoTrust LLC
Brian Clifton, Google Analytics Expert & Renowned Author, opened the conference with his keynote, "10 Years of Google Analytics: How Digital Analytics Has Changed. Have You Adapted?"
Five Cutting Edge Uses for Analytics in the EnterpriseInfoTrust LLC
Presentation by Jesse Nichols from Google. Five cutting edge uses for analytics in the enterprise. Presentation covers how to capture and measure consumer moments that matter in one place.
Opendatabay - Open Data Marketplace.pptxOpendatabay
Opendatabay.com unlocks the power of data for everyone. Open Data Marketplace fosters a collaborative hub for data enthusiasts to explore, share, and contribute to a vast collection of datasets.
First ever open hub for data enthusiasts to collaborate and innovate. A platform to explore, share, and contribute to a vast collection of datasets. Through robust quality control and innovative technologies like blockchain verification, opendatabay ensures the authenticity and reliability of datasets, empowering users to make data-driven decisions with confidence. Leverage cutting-edge AI technologies to enhance the data exploration, analysis, and discovery experience.
From intelligent search and recommendations to automated data productisation and quotation, Opendatabay AI-driven features streamline the data workflow. Finding the data you need shouldn't be a complex. Opendatabay simplifies the data acquisition process with an intuitive interface and robust search tools. Effortlessly explore, discover, and access the data you need, allowing you to focus on extracting valuable insights. Opendatabay breaks new ground with a dedicated, AI-generated, synthetic datasets.
Leverage these privacy-preserving datasets for training and testing AI models without compromising sensitive information. Opendatabay prioritizes transparency by providing detailed metadata, provenance information, and usage guidelines for each dataset, ensuring users have a comprehensive understanding of the data they're working with. By leveraging a powerful combination of distributed ledger technology and rigorous third-party audits Opendatabay ensures the authenticity and reliability of every dataset. Security is at the core of Opendatabay. Marketplace implements stringent security measures, including encryption, access controls, and regular vulnerability assessments, to safeguard your data and protect your privacy.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Techniques to optimize the pagerank algorithm usually fall in two categories. One is to try reducing the work per iteration, and the other is to try reducing the number of iterations. These goals are often at odds with one another. Skipping computation on vertices which have already converged has the potential to save iteration time. Skipping in-identical vertices, with the same in-links, helps reduce duplicate computations and thus could help reduce iteration time. Road networks often have chains which can be short-circuited before pagerank computation to improve performance. Final ranks of chain nodes can be easily calculated. This could reduce both the iteration time, and the number of iterations. If a graph has no dangling nodes, pagerank of each strongly connected component can be computed in topological order. This could help reduce the iteration time, no. of iterations, and also enable multi-iteration concurrency in pagerank computation. The combination of all of the above methods is the STICD algorithm. [sticd] For dynamic graphs, unchanged components whose ranks are unaffected can be skipped altogether.
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
8. Pillar #1: Be Your AUDIENCE
Get context for the request.
During the request, imagine your executive asking:
What do I really want?
Why should they care about this data?
Ask who else is attending?
High-level C-Suite or tactical?
Tailor your tone & content to the
savviness of the audience.
9. Know Thy STAGE
Think of your presentation as a performance.
Visualizedelivering your presentation.
If you’re not familiar with the room, take a field trip and scope out your stage in advance.
Figure out technical logistics beforehand!!
11. Pillar #2: Use Your Presentation Tool
Take full advantage of the live presentation format. Doing it right can help your career. But first, you need to learn how to…
WISELY
17. PowerPoint is not the problem. Weare.
We need to learn how to use this tool right to create an attention- getting & memorable presentation. It is supposedto be a tool. How can we do that?
Unload the bullet points.
Bullet points kill presentations by shoving too many ideas at your audience at once, so they completely tune you out.
Don’t use them as a crutch. Prepare. A lot.
Yes, I am using bullet points here. I am allowed to because this is a handout.
Put The POWERBack InPowerPoint.
18. Tip #5: Create ideas, not slides.
Each slide should communicate no more than one idea.
Use two slides to convey a single idea to pace your audience and build anticipation.
Don’t be confined by a certain number of slides; explore your ideas.
REMEMBER: Your slides are for your audience, notyou.
Your slides are not a script so you don’t have to prepare.
They are the vehicle to deliver your message into their brains.
This means a lot of work preparing, but it will pay off when people follow up with you after such a great presentation!
Put The POWERBack InPowerPoint.
19. Put The POWERBack InPowerPoint.
Resist the fluff.
This includes logos, watermarks, clipart, or any repetitive element that adds zero value to your presentation) Save them for the cover slide.
Fluff distracts the audience from you and your message.
Simplicity is the key.
Allow your message to stand out by decluttering your slides.
Learn to designyour slides like a designer would.
Get rid of clipart right now!!
Harness the power of real imagery.
Vision is the human being’s strongest sense in the best interest of our survival.*
A compelling, relevantimage increases recall.*
A compelling, relevant, & emotionalimage increases recall even more!*
*Source: Brain Rules by John Medina..
21. Survey Feedback
•60% of mobile visitors didn’t find what they were looking for.
•“I find searching your site really frustrating. All I wanted to do was download a form and I couldn’t. Please make the site better for customers!” (Score = 32)
Note: Not actual feedback.
22. 60%
of Mobile Visitors
Did Not Find What They Needed
!
Note: Not actual data.
23. Note: Not actual feedback.
I find searching your site really frustrating. All I wanted to do was download a form and I couldn’t. Please make the site better for customers!!
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Score = 32
24. Where Can I Find Some
Secret tip: Office 2013 Image search! It has lots of freestock photography.
Creative Commons search: search.creativecommons.org
Search “Labeled for Non-Commercial Reuse”
Also try Dreamstime.com& Unsplash.com.
For top quality stock photos that docome with a price:
iStockPhoto.com
GettyImages.com
Shutterstock.com
PHAT PHOTOS?
25. Type “beautiful fonts”, “cool new fonts” or “modern presentation fonts” into a search engine
Visit Fontspace.comfor some ideas
Other good resources:
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/freebies/52-really-high-quality-free-fonts- for-modern-and-cool-design/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/20/free-font-round-up/
The fonts in this presentation are Oswaldand Open Sans Light.
Where Can I Find Some
PHAT PHOTOS?
26. This is a critical judgment call, and it’s not built into any web analytics platform.
Use tools like the Extreme Presentation Chart Selector to guide you.
Resist the urge to always use a pie for composition charts.
If you can’t resist the siren call of the pie, learn to do pie right.
Brains can’t easily calculate area inside segments of a circle.
BUT for simple composition charts, a well-done pie can suffice.
If you MUSTuse a pie, usechart best practices to make it digestible.
Are you going to let Excel’s puky default color formatting decide what matters to your executives?? NOH!
The same recipe for a better pie can be applied to all charts.
RIGHT VISUALIZATION
Tip #8: Choose the
27. of Mobile Visits come
25%
37%
Other
BlackBerry 8520 Curve
Amazon Kindle Fire
HTC Droid Incredible 2
Samsung Galaxy
iPhone
iPad
0%
20%
40%
Source: Analytics Inc, 2014.
62%
fromAPPLE DEVICES
28. of Mobile Visits Come
Source: Analytics Inc, 2014.
62%
fromAPPLE DEVICES
iPad37%
Other10%
BlackBerry 8520 Curve5%
Amazon Kindle Fire5%
HTC Droid Incredible 28%
Samsung Galaxy10%
iPhone25%
Mobile Visits by Device
29. Analyst Reading List
Slide:ologyby Nancy Duarte
Presentation Zen& Presentation Zen:Designby Garr Reynolds
Brain Rulesby John Medina
WSJ Guide to Information Graphicsby Dona M. Wong
Chart Selector Toolby Extreme Presentation Method
30. 1.Make changes…SLOWLY
2.TEST & REFINE your presentation approach
3.Watch a TED TALK
4.Stop & ask: would I like this crap?
5.Remember that YOU ARE YOUR PRESENTATION
Awesome Preso Bonus Tips!
31. When sending results over email, this tips can help:
Bring the bottom line (key insight, recommendation) to the top of the email and put in bold. Your execs will see the key info right away, and can peruse the data if they have time, which they usually don’t.
Bullets work nicely in analysis emails, they keep it organized.
Use appropriately-sized graphs to support observations.
Follow up with recommendations, always!
After sending, follow updirectly with recipient several days later to cement it in their minds.
Bonus Tips:
EMAIL!