Social and Political Data Science: Introduction

Computational Social Science

Karl Ho

School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

University of Texas at Dallas

How to give effective presentation?

Killer presentation:

#1 Skill Irreplaceable in the Data Science Revolution Age.

Source: https://www.inc.com/carmine-gallo/1-skill-that-will-make-you-irresistible-irreplaceable-in-age-of-ai.html

This is the one tool we have to outsmart smart machines.

Prepare yourself

Watch Great Persuaders
See Yourself as a Chief Storytelling Officer
Reframe and Rehearse

Prepare yourself: Tools

Online Slides
Quarto Presentation (reveal.js)
Keynote vs. Powerpoint
LaTeX Beamer

Prepare yourself: Tools

How to make great (not good) slides

Know your tool
Legible fonts (never use default)
Figures > Tables > Text
Cognitive Science
- Fancy elements (e.g. interactive, reactive)
  
  Consider adopting novel design solutions only when the estimated payoff is substantially greater than the cost of learning to use them.

Prepare yourself: On stage

Always look at the audience
Tell us your research question at the beginning of your talk.
Spend a minute or two explaining why this question is important and original. You are charged with responsibility that you are not copying other people’s papers.
Again, make sure you look at the audience (you see me, I see you!)

Prepare yourself: On stage (cont'd)

Spend as little time as possible summarizing the literature. But this is staple too. Focus on your argument.
Presenting a table with quantitative results is fine, but a figure illustrating your findings is better.
When presenting quantitative evidence, focus on the hypothesis you are testing.
Repeat the big take-away points from your paper at the end.

Prepare yourself: On stage (cont'd)

Reserve one minute for Q&A
DON'T EXCEED YOUR TIME LIMIT!

Helpful Tips

Get your own remote control
Arrive early
Control your own techs.
TED talk
Read books (not online materials)

For CSS

Detail-oriented charts
1. Theme
2. Color
  1. font
  2. frame and grid
3. Font (depart from default)
Know your environment (stage, projector)
1. Be ready to change theme/background color
Presentation proportional to:
1. Effect = \(f(Main takeaway, time, skills, audience )\)
Technical detail
1. Leave appendix after end of presentation for Q&A
2. e.g. Codes, additional charts, screenshots or video or running process

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