VB036: PRESENTATIONS AND VISUALS Mgr. Antonín Zita, M.A. Avoid Using As a Script ¨Although your visual aids are a useful memory aid for you, you need to consider your audience’s needs when you are designing them. Don’t use PowerPoint as a script! This often results in slides being overloaded by text, which is too dense and too small for the audience to easily read. Ideally font size should be 24 points and above. The audience can read faster than you can speak so, if you are reading directly from your slides, they’ll be ahead of you and wondering why you didn’t just e-mail them a copy of your slides! As you are preparing your PowerPoint presentation think about how it relates to what you are saying and what you intend the audience to learn from each slide. As you are presenting draw their attention to the relevant information on the slide. Bad vs. Good Visuals ¨Direct reforms had a larger effect on the supply of nongroup vs group physicians, on the supply of most (but not all) specialties with high malpractice insurance premiums, on states with high levels of managed care, and on supply through retirements and entries than through the propensity of physicians to move between the states. ¨Larger effect on: ¤Nongroup vs group physicians ¤Most specialties ¤Managed care ¤Retirement & entries ¨Impact of Malpractice Reforms ¨Impact of Malpractice Reforms Bad vs. Good Visuals ¨Too much text in slides is detrimental ¨Animations are very useful ¨Control the amount of information that the audience sees at a given moment. ¨Audience will pay attention to the content of your speech ¨Too much text in slides is detrimental ¨Animations are very useful ¨Control the amount of information that the audience sees at a given moment. ¨Audience will pay attention to the content of your speech ¨ Text Formatting ¨Don’t use ugly/complicated fonts ¨Don’t use annoying or difficult to see colors ¤Don’t change colors between the points Text Formatting (cont.) ¨Don’t use distracting/difficult to read from backgrounds ¨Be consistent in the use of backgrounds Text Formatting (cont.) •Don’t make your visuals too bland Visuals ¨Avoid bad or irrelevant visuals ¨Should be related to the topic C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\MEDIA\CAGCAT10\j0286034.wmf VISUAL PowerPoint is not a text medium; it's a medium they're a medium and Proofread to Check Spelling & Grammar ¨Proof-read careful to avoid smelling mistakes and incorect grammar? ¨ Sources ¨Include a list of sources! ¨Avoid “Wikipedia.com” or “Google.com” ¨ Sources ¨Ippolito, Kate. “Effective PowerPoint Presentations.” Learn Higher. http://archive.learnhigher.ac.uk/groupwork/episode6/amp/altversion.html ¨Kennedy, Niall. “Microsoft Technology Platform Presentation.” https://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/sets/1269791/ ¨Noer, Muhammad. “Steve Job’s Presentation Techniques Revealed.” Best Presentation. 2013. http://www.bestpresentation.net/presentation-secrets-steve-jobs/) ¨Purewal, Sarah Jacobsson. “The World’s Worst PowerPoint Presentations.” PCWorld, 17 Aug. 2010. http://www.pcworld.com/article/203396/worlds_worst_powerpoint_presentations.html ¨Smith, Jeff. “Suing PowerPoint Well.” Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. Presentation. ¨“Successfully Using Visual Aids in Your Presentation.” University of Alabama School of Medicine. 2005. http://www.uab.edu/uasomume/fd2/visuals/index.htm ¨Williams, Erica J. Presentations in English. Honkong: MacMillan, 2008. A Proper Use of Visuals stevejobsslidephonecomparison.jpg bill gates.jpg January-2007-iPhone-introduction-Steve-Jobs-multitouch-patented-slide.jpg 58697261_62433a6960_b.jpg stevejobsshowingdifferentipods.jpg 58699135_43fcb50244_b.jpg 203407-ppt1_original.jpg 203412-ppt5_original.jpg Slides: An Exercise What is genetic data? ¨Our DNA consists of 4 bases A, C, T and G; so our genetic data is a string of these 4 letters, e.g. …AGGGGATTTAAA… ¨But at each genetic location a person can have 1 or 2 types, so can encode the genetic data in terms of 0 and 1s, e.g. …0101001010101… Slides: An Exercise Why do we simulate genetic data? ¨Lots of methods in literature about how to locate disease genes ¨To assess a method, apply it to data set and compare predicted location with actual location ¨But need data sets with known location of disease gene … not many of these ¨Use simulated data sets ¨ Slides: An Exercise Why is simulating genetic data challenging? ¨Real genetic data is not a random set of 0 and 1s ¨There are complex correlation structures due to thousands of years of evolution ¨Realistic simulated data should contain these structures