how to enjoy presentations
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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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