How to enjoy presentations

Dmytro Fishman

Why would anyone care?

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You never know who is in the audience…

Promoting yourself

Promoting organisation

400 000 000 iPod devices

were sold

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Promoting ideasHis TED talk on Global Health has more than

11,400,000 views

Share joy and unity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IGC28smZ8Y

Who actually cares?

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Presentation

Major steps

Before During After

During AfterBefore

Know your audience

Know your audience

Know your audience

What is their background?

Know your audience

What are their interests?

What is their background?

Come up with logical transitions

Reading from your slides

Check technical equipment

before things get messy…

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Practice!

http://researchinprogress.tumblr.com/post/38455311934/workshops-vs-conferences

Before you start

Check technical equipment

Smoothly transit from slide to slide

Study your audience

Rehearse!

During AfterBefore

You: “as you can see from this graph…”

Your audience:

You: “as you can see from this graph…”

http://researchinprogress.tumblr.com/post/35193414559/as-the-figure-clearly-shows

This guy makes paintings in Excel…

http://www.boredpanda.com/73-year-old-excel-paintings-tatsuo-horiuchi/

This guy makes paintings in Excel…

don’t tell me that your PP is not good enough!http://www.boredpanda.com/73-year-old-excel-paintings-tatsuo-horiuchi/

Text & formulas

Ignoring your audience

Ignoring your audience

Looking at one person or not looking at your audience at all.

This is you

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This is you

This is your audience

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This is you

This is your audience

http://images.travelpod.com/users/punctiliouspaul/1.1260360910.snake-charmer.jpgNever turn your head away

Always cite all the materials you use

Always cite all the materials you use

Copied couple of slides from somebody’s presentation?

Always cite all the materials you use

Copied couple of slides from somebody’s presentation?

reference these slides e.g. by Anna Ufliand [link]

Always cite all the materials you use

Copied couple of slides from somebody’s presentation?

reference these slides e.g. by Anna Ufliand [link]

More than couple of slides + some ideas?

Always cite all the materials you use

Copied couple of slides from somebody’s presentation?

reference these slides e.g. by Anna Ufliand [link]

More than couple of slides + some ideas?Make a separate slide with a disclaimer

This material was (partially) inspired by

by Dmytro Fishman https://courses.cs.ut.ee/MTAT.03.239/2016_fall/uploads/Main/ML_in_Bioinformatics.pdf

During your talk

Illustrative graphics

Use short sentences on slides

Talk to your audience!

Cite!

During AfterBefore

BIIT 2016

MEM

BIIT 2016

MEM

Give a credit!

Say “Thank you”

During AfterBefore

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