This talks gives some basic pointers on how to give power point presentations that are effective and get your point across. Great for young scientists, or really any academic field.
I did not create this presentation, but found it online. During my presentation, I made no changes to the original and gave credit to the person that created it.
You might not think of PowerPoint as engaging and exciting but PowerPoint is an extremely powerful tool in the right hands. During this two-part class we will:
- Discuss basic presentation concepts for keeping your audience engaged
- Show effective slide design using Microsoft PowerPoint
- Learn tips and tricks for improving presentations
- Demonstrate ways to interact and assess your audience
- Explore alternative presentation software
During this two part class, attendees will create a short presentation using PowerPoint, customize it for their audience, and have the option to receive feedback.
I did not create this presentation, but found it online. During my presentation, I made no changes to the original and gave credit to the person that created it.
You might not think of PowerPoint as engaging and exciting but PowerPoint is an extremely powerful tool in the right hands. During this two-part class we will:
- Discuss basic presentation concepts for keeping your audience engaged
- Show effective slide design using Microsoft PowerPoint
- Learn tips and tricks for improving presentations
- Demonstrate ways to interact and assess your audience
- Explore alternative presentation software
During this two part class, attendees will create a short presentation using PowerPoint, customize it for their audience, and have the option to receive feedback.
Based on Alexei Kapterev's Death by PowerPoint, which inspired me a whole lot. I was so moved to redesign the pages and make them a little more interesting.
Another take on powerpoint boredom but this time specially adapted for teachers! Because so many of them do not know how to use PowerPoint well and need some inspiration. Musical version also available on the you.
The Application of the Human Phenotype Ontology mhaendel
Presented at the II International Summer School for Rare Disease and Orphan Drug Registries, September 15-19, 2014, Organized by the National Centre for Rare Diseases
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy.
Note the extensive contribution by many consortium members and partners listed in the acknowledgements slide.
Really Bad Advice That Will Serve You Well #PresentationTipsNadine Hanafi
A presentation is one of the most powerful communication tools at your disposal. But the truth is most of us would rather go to the dentist than give a presentation. Making an effective presentation can be easy if you follow these tips.
Having a cool PowerPoint template is CRITICAL if you want to have slides that will WOW an audience. The benefits of purchasing a professional presentation template include:
Save Time – With a purchased template you can focus more on honing your message and less on building a template framework.
Elegant Design – The presentation templates are clean, minimal, and look professional.
Customizable – All the templates are easy to customize. Simply add your text and swap out any images/graphics you don’t want.
Customer Support – If you ever have any questions about the PowerPoint template you can leave a comment and the person who designed the template will get back to you fairly quickly.
Designed for PowerPoint – The templates are designed to be edited in PowerPoint. No additional software needed.
Animations Included – For many of the PowerPoint templates offered, there are custom animations built into the template. If you don’t want the animations you can always remove them.
Download and watch on your computer for best view!
This deck covers five tips on how to improve the typography on your presentation slides.
This presentation was created 100% in PowerPoint by my presentation design agency Slides. We are based in Spain (Europe) but have clients worldwide.
Drop me an email and we will discuss your project.
Based on Alexei Kapterev's Death by PowerPoint, which inspired me a whole lot. I was so moved to redesign the pages and make them a little more interesting.
Another take on powerpoint boredom but this time specially adapted for teachers! Because so many of them do not know how to use PowerPoint well and need some inspiration. Musical version also available on the you.
The Application of the Human Phenotype Ontology mhaendel
Presented at the II International Summer School for Rare Disease and Orphan Drug Registries, September 15-19, 2014, Organized by the National Centre for Rare Diseases
Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy.
Note the extensive contribution by many consortium members and partners listed in the acknowledgements slide.
Really Bad Advice That Will Serve You Well #PresentationTipsNadine Hanafi
A presentation is one of the most powerful communication tools at your disposal. But the truth is most of us would rather go to the dentist than give a presentation. Making an effective presentation can be easy if you follow these tips.
Having a cool PowerPoint template is CRITICAL if you want to have slides that will WOW an audience. The benefits of purchasing a professional presentation template include:
Save Time – With a purchased template you can focus more on honing your message and less on building a template framework.
Elegant Design – The presentation templates are clean, minimal, and look professional.
Customizable – All the templates are easy to customize. Simply add your text and swap out any images/graphics you don’t want.
Customer Support – If you ever have any questions about the PowerPoint template you can leave a comment and the person who designed the template will get back to you fairly quickly.
Designed for PowerPoint – The templates are designed to be edited in PowerPoint. No additional software needed.
Animations Included – For many of the PowerPoint templates offered, there are custom animations built into the template. If you don’t want the animations you can always remove them.
Download and watch on your computer for best view!
This deck covers five tips on how to improve the typography on your presentation slides.
This presentation was created 100% in PowerPoint by my presentation design agency Slides. We are based in Spain (Europe) but have clients worldwide.
Drop me an email and we will discuss your project.
Slides from a talk on how to give a good scientific seminar using slides. For details (and a video of the talk), see: http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2011/05/28/the-best-seminar/
Patient-led deep phenotyping using a lay-friendly version of the Human Phenot...mhaendel
Presented at AMIA TBI CRI 2018.
Rare disease patients are expert in their medical history and these patients not only are some of the most engaged, but also they can themselves provision data for use in clinical evaluation. We therefore created a lay-person version of our clinical deep phenotyping instrument, the Human Phenotype Ontology. Here, we evaluate the diagnostic utility of this lay-HPO, and debut a new software tool for patient-led deep phenotyping.
The Software and Data Licensing Solution: Not Your Dad’s UBMTA mhaendel
Presented at the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Annual Conference 2018
Moderator: Arvin Paranjpe, Oregon Health & Science University
Speakers: Frank Curci, Ater Wynne LLP
Melissa Haendel, Oregon Health & Science University
Charles Williams, University of Oregon
Big data is an open frontier, and it’s quickly expanding. However, transaction costs and legal barriers stand squarely in the way of meaningful, far-reaching data integration. We’ll grapple with the issues regarding a large-scale data integration project across humans, model and non-model organisms. Without pointing fingers, we’ll also share a few highlights from the (Re)usable Data Project, which outlined a five-part rubric to evaluate data licenses with respect to clarity and the reuse and redistribution of data. In addition, the topic raises the question: How well-suited are off-the-shelf software and data licenses for universities? Data scientists and software programmers are all too quick to pick one when they release their technology on GitHub. What should technology transfer professionals
recommend? We’ll discuss the usefulness and attributes of a uniform software and data license for university researchers and software programmers.
Equivalence is in the (ID) of the beholdermhaendel
Presented at PIDapalooza 2018. https://pidapalooza.org/
Determining identifier equivalency is key to data integration and to realizing the scientific discoveries that can only be made by collating our vast disconnected data stores.
There are two key problems in determining equivalency - conceptual and syntactic alignment. Conceptual alignment often relies on Xrefs and string-matching against synonyms. There is indeed a better way! Algorithmic determination of identifier equivalency across different sources can use a combination of Xrefs, priors rules, existing semantic relations, and synonyms to create equivalency cliques than can highlight the discrepancies in conceptual definitions for manual review. This is especially useful for data sources annotated with concept drift and differences, such as diseases. Syntactic issues are that there are so many variations of the same identifier, making data joins difficult. We present a framework to reconcile and provide authoritative and integration-ready prefixed identifiers (CURIES), to capture and consolidate prefixes and to build links across key resource registries. The combination of JSON-LD context technology with a prefix metadata repository provides the basis for the infrastructure to handle identifiers in a consistent fashion. Finally, this architecture also allows resources to be self describing "beacons" with respect to their identifiers.
Building (and traveling) the data-brick road: A report from the front lines ...mhaendel
The NIH Data Commons must treat the data it will contain not unlike the mortar and stones of a road. To help our fellow scientists travelers use the road, we must engineer for heavy traffic and diverse destinations. There are many steps to architecting a robust and persistent road. First, the data must be sourced and manipulated into common data models. This requires versioned access to the data, equivalency determination of identifiers within the data or minting of new ones for the data and/or within it, manipulating the data according to common data models (e.g. a genotype-to-pehnotype association in one source may relate a variant to a disease, where in another it may be a set of alleles associated with a set of phenotypes, each source models the data differently). Inclusion of the data in the Commons must meet all licensing restrictions, which are varied and usually poorly declared, as well as security, HIPAA, and ethics requirements. Software tools are needed to perform the Enhance-Transform-Load (ETL) process on a regular cycle to keep the data current, and to assess changes and quality assurance over time. For records that disappear, there needs to be a way to keep an archive of them. Once in the Commons, the data requires a map to navigate the roads: where do you want to go? Indexing and search across the data requires having the data be self-reporting - loading ontologies used in the data for indexing and providing faceted query over these and other attributes, sophisticated text mining tools, relevance ranking, and equivalency and similarity determination from amongst different providers. Once found, the users need vehicles to drive upon the road. These are their workspaces, the place where they design and implement the operations they need in order to get where they want to go. Unimaginable scientific emeralds are to be found at the end of the road, as the sum of all the data, if well integrated and made computationally reusable, has proven to be well beyond the sum of its parts in getting us where we want to go.
Reusable data for biomedicine: A data licensing odysseymhaendel
Biomedical data integrators grapple with a fundamental blocker in research today: licensing for data use and redistribution. Complex licensing and data reuse restrictions hinder most publicly-funded, seemingly “open” biomedical data from being put to its full potential. Such issues include missing licenses, non-standard licenses, and restrictive provisions. The sheer diversity of licenses are particularly thorny for those that aim to redistribute data. Redistributors are often required to contact each sub-source to obtain permissions, and this is complicated by the fact that on each side of the agreement there may be multiple legal entities involved and some sub-sources may themselves already be aggregating data from other sub-sources. Furthermore, interpreting legal compliance with source data licensing and use agreements is complicated, as data is often manipulated, shared, and redistributed by many types of research groups and users in various and subtle ways. Here, we debut a new effort, the (Re)usable Data Project, where we have created a five-part rubric to evaluate biomedical data sources and their licensing information to determine the degree to which unnegotiated and unrestricted reuse and redistribution are provided. We have tested the (Re)usable Data rubric against various biomedical data sources, ranking each source on a scale of zero to five stars, and have found that approximately half of the resources rank poorly, getting 2.5 stars or less. Our goal is to help biomedical informaticians and other users navigate the plethora of issues in reusing and redistributing biomedical data. The (Re)usable Data project aims to promote standardization and ease of reuse licensing practices by data providers.
Data Translator: an Open Science Data Platform for Mechanistic Disease Discoverymhaendel
Architecture of language and data translation that underlays the NCATS Biomedical Data Translator. Presented at the Fanconi Anemia Annual Meeting. http://fanconi.org/index.php/research/annual_symposium
How open is open? An evaluation rubric for public knowledgebasesmhaendel
Presented at the 2017 International Biocuration Conference.
Data relevant to any given scientific investigation is highly decentralized across thousands of specialized databases. Within the Biocuration community, we recognize that the value of open scientific knowledge bases is that they make scientific knowledge easier to find and compute, thereby maximizing impact and minimizing waste. The ever-increasing number of databases makes us necessarily question what are our priorities with respect to maintaining them, developing new ones, or senescing/subsuming ones that have completed in their mission. Therefore, open biomedical data repositories should be carefully evaluated according to quality, accessibility, and value of the database resources over time and across the translational divide.
Traditional citation count and publication impact factors as a measure of success or value are known to be inadequate to assess the usefulness of a resource. This is especially true for integrative resources. For example, almost everyone in biomedicine relies on PubMed, but almost no one ever cites or mentions it in their publications. While the Nucleic Acids Research Database issues have increased citation of some databases, many still go unpublished or uncited; even novel derivations of methodology, applications, and workflows from biomedical knowledge bases are often “adapted” but never cited. There is a lack of citation best practices for widely used biomedical database resources (e.g. should a paper be cited? A URL? Is mention of the name and access date sufficient?).
We have developed a draft evaluation rubric for evaluating open science databases according to the commonly cited FAIR principles -- Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, but with three additional principles: Traceable, Licensed, and Connected. These additions are largely overlooked and underappreciated, yet are critical to reuse of the knowledge contained within any given database. It is worth noting that FAIR principles apply not only to the resource as a whole, but also to their key components; this “fractal FAIRness” means that even the license, identifiers, vocabularies, APIs themselves must be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable, etc. Here we report on initial testing of our evaluation rubric on the recent NIH/Wellcome Trust Open Science projects and seek community input for how to further advance this rubric as a Biocuration community resource.
Deep phenotyping to aid identification of coding & non-coding rare disease v...mhaendel
Whole-exome sequencing has revolutionized disease research, but many cases remain unsolved because ~100-1000 candidates remain after removing common or non-pathogenic variants. We present Genomiser to prioritize coding and non-coding variants by leveraging phenotype data encoded with the Human Phenotype Ontology and a curated database of non-coding Mendelian variants. Genomiser is able to identify causal regulatory variants as the top candidate in 77% of simulated whole genomes.
Global Phenotypic Data Sharing Standards to Maximize Diagnostics and Mechanis...mhaendel
Presented at the IRDiRC 2017 conference in Paris, Feb 9th, 2017 (http://irdirc-conference.org/). This talk reviews use of the Human Phenotype Ontology for phenotype comparisons against other patients, known diseases, and animal models for diagnostic discovery. It also discusses the new Phenopackets Exchange mechanism for open phenotypic data sharing.
www.monarchinitiative.org
www.phenopackets.org
www.human-phenotype-ontology.org
Credit where credit is due: acknowledging all types of contributionsmhaendel
This is an update for COASP (http://oaspa.org/conference/) on the representation of attribution beyond authorship of a publication. Publications are proxies for the projects and people that area actually engaged in the work, and represent the dissemination aspect. How can we better understand the individual contributions and their impact? The openRIF, openVIVO and FORCE11 Attribution WG efforts aim to represent scholarship in a computationally tractable manner so as to enable credit and evaluation of all types of scholarly contributions.
The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) was developed to describe phenotypic abnormalities, aka, “deep phenotyping”, whereby symptoms and characteristic phenotypic findings (a phenotypic profile) are captured. The HPO has been utilized to great success for assisting computational phenotype comparison against known diseases, other patients, and model organisms to support diagnosis of rare disease patients. Clinicians and geneticists create phenotypic profiles based on clinical evaluation, but this is time consuming and can miss important phenotypic features. Patients are sometimes the best source of information about their symptoms that might otherwise be missed in a clinical encounter. However, HPO primarily use medical terminology, which can be difficult for patients and their families to understand. To make the HPO accessible to patients, we systematically added non-expert terminology (i.e., layperson terms) synonyms. Using semantic similarity, patient-recorded phenotypic profiles can be evaluated against those created clinically for undiagnosed patients to determine the improvement gained from the patient-driven phenotyping, as well as how much the patient phenotyping narrows the diagnosis. This patient-centric HPO can be utilized by all: in patient-centered rare disease websites, in patient community platforms and registries, or even to post one’s hard-to-diagnosed phenotypic profile on the Web.
Why the world needs phenopacketeers, and how to be onemhaendel
Keynote presented at the the Ninth International Biocuration Conference Geneva, Switzerland, April 10-14, 2016
The health of an individual organism results from complex interplay between its genes and environment. Although great strides have been made in standardizing the representation of genetic information for exchange, there are no comparable standards to represent phenotypes (e.g. patient disease features, variation across biodiversity) or environmental factors that may influence such phenotypic outcomes. Phenotypic features of individual organisms are currently described in diverse places and in diverse formats: publications, databases, health records, registries, clinical trials, museum collections, and even social media. In these contexts, biocuration has been pivotal to obtaining a computable representation, but is still deeply challenged by the lack of standardization, accessibility, persistence, and computability among these contexts. How can we help all phenotype data creators contribute to this biocuration effort when the data is so distributed across so many communities, sources, and scales? How can we track contributions and provide proper attribution? How can we leverage phenotypic data from the model organism or biodiversity communities to help diagnose disease or determine evolutionary relatedness? Biocurators unite in a new community effort to address these challenges.
On the frontier of genotype-2-phenotype data integrationmhaendel
Presented at AMIA TBI 2016 BD2K Panel. A description of the Monarch Initiative's efforts to perform deep phenotyping data integration across species, facilitate exchange, and build computable G2P evidence modesl to aid variant interpretation.
Envisioning a world where everyone helps solve diseasemhaendel
Keynote presented at the Semantic Web for Life Sciences conference in Cambridge, UK, December 9th, 2015
http://www.swat4ls.org/
The talk focuses on the use of ontologies for data integration to support rare disease diagnostics, and how so very many people unbeknownst to the patient or even to the researchers creating the data are involved in a diagnosis.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
2. Hello!
Melissa Haendel
• Assistant Professor, DMICE and OHSU Library
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BA, Chemistry, Reed College
PhD, Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin
I build informatics tools for biologists
I like to garden and pick wild mushrooms
3. Hello!
Melissa Haendel
• Assistant Professor, DMICE and OHSU Library
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BA, Chemistry, Reed College
PhD, Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin
I build informatics tools for biologists
I like to garden and pick wild mushrooms
Irrelevant information! Introduce yourself as is
relevant to the presentation
4. Start your presentations with:
What is the premise of your story?
The problem space you are trying to address?
The crux of your biscuit?
Telling a good scientific story is important
to be a successful scientist
5. Your slides don’t tell a story
You do.
Use your slides as prompts for your story, don’t
rely on them to do the job.
8. Chilean Fruit Exports
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Fresh fruit leads Chile's export mix - Chile emerges as major supplier of fresh fruit to world
market due to ample natural resources, consumer demand for fresh fruit during winter
season in U.S. and Europe, and incentives in agricultural policies of Chilean government,
encouraging trend toward diversification of exports and development of nontraditional crops
- U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Report
Chile is among the developing economies taking advantage of these trends, pursuing a free
market economy. This has allowed for diversification through the expansion of fruit
production for export, especially to the U.S. and Western Europe. Chile has successfully
diversified its agricultural sector to the extent that it is now a major fruit exporting nation.
Many countries view Chile's diversification of agriculture as a model to be followed.
Meanwhile, the U.S. remains the largest single market for Chile's fruit exports. However,
increasing demand from the EC and Central and East European countries combined may
eventually surpass exports to the U.S., spurring further growth in Chile's exports.
If you’ve read this far, your eyes probably hurt and you’ve been reading this tedious longwinded text instead of listening to me. I’m insulted- can’t you see I’m doing a presentation up
here? Look at me! Congratulations, however, on having such good eyesight.
No one will read this , and neither will you.
In fact, you wont’ remember what it says.
9. Slide text should only be enough to
help you remember your story
Don’t use large blocks of text
Emphasize the main points
The “Six-by-Six” rule
Use pictures
Use a large font…at least 30-point or more
for most text
10. Lists and Bullets
• Don’t use bullet points for a single bullet
– Don’t complicate bullets with many indentations
This can confuse your audience
Don’t mix bullet styles throughout the talk
11. ABOUT THEMES AND LAYOUTS
Just because Powerpoint/Keynote has neato
themes doesn’t mean you should use them
You can create your own background
Not all slides have to be the same
Fill the space, but don’t crowd the space
Use white background when images have white
background
17. Don’t do this!
• My personal favorite:
the Suzuki Savage
• Light weight (~380lbs)
• Adequate power (650cc
engine)
• Low seat height fits
most riders
18. Bad Color Choices
Avoid loud, garish colors…dark text on light
background or vice versa is best.
Avoid text colors that fade into background,
i.e. blue and black
Avoid color-blind combinations:
– Red and green
– Blue and yellow
24. We want to understand gene
function across taxa
Vertebrata
tetrapod limbs
Ascidians
ampullae
Echinodermata
tube feet
Arthropoda
Annelida
parapodia
Mollusca
Sticky-outy bits express distalless – deep homology?
CJ Mungall, C Torniai, GV Gkoutos, SE Lewis, MA Haendel. Genome biology 13 (1), R5
25. Overwhelming Pictures
Use pictures, but don’t let them use you
Keep slides SIMPLE! Too much diverts
audience away from content
Too many pictures make saving difficult
37. Racquetball Fundamentals
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2, 3, or 4 players.
1 player serves, other “returns.”
Only serving player can score.
Served ball must land past serving line and
cannot hit back wall.
• Ball can only bounce once before striking front
wall…but ball does not have to bounce.
38. Using too much Slide Animation
Again, keep slides simple!
Apply one Slide Transition style and one
animation scheme to ALL slides
Busy presentations divert audience attention
from content.
39. Murphy’s Law
Something WILL go wrong - test your
presentation
Always have a backup of your presentation
Be prepared to do the presentation without
the slides
40. Presentation tips
Talk to your audience, not the slides
Don’t read what is on the slides…
Avoid apologizing for a presentation
shortcomings
Know how to pronounce words in your talk
Check spelling
Don’t put things in slides you aren’t going to
talk about and then say you don’t have time
to talk about them
41. Presentation Pacing
Don’t make too many slides
Avoid the slide rush at the end of your talk
Each slide takes 1-3 minutes average
A 10 minute talk should have about 6 slides
Look at your audience and adjust pace
Leave time for Q & A
42. Attribution
Where your images/quotes came from
The people/animals you care about
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
43. Ontologies built for one species will
not work for others
http://ccm.ucdavis.edu/bcancercd/22/mouse_figure.html
Free image sites: mediawikicommons
http://fme.biostr.washington.edu:8080/FME/index.html
44. Sharing your slides
Slideshare for sharing – Can reference in CV
Attribute slides reused from Slideshare
http://www.slideshare.net/
45. Be a good audience too
Are you annoyed when your audience
is chatting? Texting?
Ask questions
Make eye contact
Giving a talk is a two-way conversation
Overview/workflow pictures are very helpful when describing your research. But they can be hard to make. Here it the evolution of a workflow figure we made for a paper.This one is pretty bad!
Starting to get better…
Finally finished here… much better! But we went through many iterations.