Presentation + slides
Presentation
In addition to the written report, your team will also create an oral presentation that summarizes and showcases your project. Using a slide presentation, you will introduce your research question and dataset, showcase visualizations, and discuss the primary conclusions. Presentations will take place in class during the last lab of the semester. The presentation must be no longer than 5 minutes.
Slides
These slides should serve as a brief visual addition to your written report and will be graded for content and quality.
Your presentation will be created using Quarto, which allows you to write slides using the same reproducible document structure you’re used to.
The slide deck should have no more than 6 content slides + 1 title slide. Here is a suggested outline as you think through the slides; you do not have to use this exact format for the 6 slides.
- Title Slide
- Slide 1: Introduce the topic and motivation
- Slide 2: Introduce the data
- Slide 3: Highlights from EDA
- Slide 4-5: Inference/modeling/other analysis
- Slide 6: Conclusions + future work
Evaluation criteria
Presentations will be evaluated by the course staff and by your peers in your lab section. Students will receive access to a Google Form where they will provide (confidential) feedback on their peer groups’ presentations. Students will evaluate their own presentations.
Slides + presentation
| Category | Less developed projects | Typical projects | More developed projects |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time management | Only some members speak during the presentation. Team does not manage time wisely (e.g. runs out of time, finishes early without adequately presenting their project). | All members speak during the presentation. Team does not exceed the five minute limit. | Team maximally uses their five minutes. Clearly communicates their objectives and outcomes from the project. |
| Professionalism | Presentation is slapped together or haphazard. Seems like independent pieces of work patched together. | Presentation appears to be rehearsed. There is cohesion to the presentation. | All elements of typical projects + everyone says something meaningful about the project. |
| Slides | Slides contain excessive text and/or content. Team relies too heavily on slides for their presentation. |
Slides are well-organized. Slides are used as a tool to assist the oral presentation. |
All elements of typical projects + graphics and tables follow best-practices (e.g. all text is legible, appropriate use of color and legends). Slides are not crammed full of text. |
| Creativity/originality | Project meets the minimum requirements but not much else. Project is incomplete or does not meet the team’s objectives. |
Project appears carefully thought out. Time and effort seem to have gone into the planning and implementation of the project. | All elements of typical projects + project goes above and beyond the minimum requirements. Addresses a truly important social issue or noteworthy goal. |
| Content | Research question is unclear. Hypotheses and analysis do not clearly address the research question. Limitations are glossed over or ignored entirely. |
Research question is stated. Hypotheses and analysis address the research question. Limitations are noted. |
Research question is clearly stated. Hypotheses and analysis clearly address the research question. Limitations are carefully considered and articulated. |
Slides + presentation (peer)
Content: Is the project well designed and is the data being used relevant to the focus of the project?
Content: Did the team use appropriate methods and did they interpret them accurately?
Creativity and critical thought: Is the project carefully thought out? Are the limitations carefully considered? Does it appear that time and effort went into the planning and implementation of the project?
Slides: Are the slides well organized, readable, not full of text, featuring figures with legible labels, legends, etc.?
Professionalism: How well did the team present? Does the presentation appear to be well practiced? Are they reading off of a script? Did everyone get a chance to say something meaningful about the project?