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How to Present Your Data Science Projects

As a data science practitioner, you will often be required to present the insights from your projects to various stakeholders like your team members, company executives, product managers, software engineers, external clients, etc.

Follow these steps to present your data science projects:

Step 1 — Understand your audience and their goals

• Who are you presenting to? What do they do? Why are they attending?
• List the questions they are looking to answer by attending your presentation
• Avoid technical jargon or code if your audience won’t understand it

Step 2 — Create a compelling slide deck for your project

• Create a clean and simple slide deck with a clear outline and large headings
• Use images, illustrations, screenshots, and graphs to convey your insights
• Keep text on slides to a minimum (<15 words). Provide details while speaking

Step 3 — Prepare, practice, and improve your presentation

• Add speaker notes on each slide & prepare a rough script for what you’ll say
• Deliver the presentation to friends/colleagues and ask for feedback/comments
• Fix errors, improve the flow, add slides for clarity, remove slides for brevity

Step 4 — Use proper settings for audio, video, and screen share

• Ensure you’re in a quiet environment & use an external headset/mic
• Ensure proper lighting on your face, and blur/replace your background
• For screen share, quit all applications, turn off notifications & use 2x zoom

Step 5 — Deliver your presentation! (live or recorded)

• Present your slides in full screen. Show web pages, code, etc. if required
• Don’t speak too fast (people will lose track) or too slow (you’ll run out of time)
• Reiterate important takeaways at the end of your presentation

Step 6 — Engage your audience with polls, Q&A, and feedback

• Conduct poll using tools like www.sli.do or Zoom chat
• Pause at regular intervals to answer audience questions
• Ask open-ended questions and encourage discussion of ideas

Send us your recorded presentations at community@jovian.ai, and we’ll publish the best submissions on our YouTube channel.