<aside> <img src="/icons/reorder_blue.svg" alt="/icons/reorder_blue.svg" width="40px" /> By the end of this, you will know:

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Audience: ___

Who are they?

What do they know?

What don’t they know?

What do they care about?

What don’t they care about?

How much time? ___ minutes

• How much time do you have to present?

<aside> <img src="/icons/hourglass_blue.svg" alt="/icons/hourglass_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Never have more slides than minutes of time

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How many slides? ___ slides

The number of slides depends on the type of presentation

• Lecture? → ~1 slide/minute
• Discussion? ~1 slide/2-5 minutes
  • e.g. recent Long Read Seq presentation: got through 15 slides in 60 minutes (including title and outline)

Rough Outline

I tend to have too little background, too much data, and people get lost because they don’t understand WHY we’re doing this

<aside> <img src="/icons/slideshow-play_blue.svg" alt="/icons/slideshow-play_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Good presentations have this breakdown:

• 30-50% Background/Introduction
• 40-60% “Main”
  • Data
  • Explain each data type
    • What are the x axes, the y axes?
• 10% Future Work/Conclusions </aside>

Example Slide Outline for 10 slides

1. Title
2. Outline
3. Background