“A great presentation gives smart ideas an advantage”

I was interning with an AI/ML startup — Rises Analytics Solutions Pvt Ltd, in my hometown when the CEO of the company got invited by a college for a presentation of the topic, AI vs COVID-19, for their students. Since I had just joined the firm for internship I was assigned to make that presentation, which was a great experience in itself and got me to learn a lot.

So first of all let us know what exactly is a presentation.

A presentation is, typically a demonstration, introduction, lecture meant to inform, persuade, inspire or to present a new idea or product it is basically visual storytelling. So while narrating a story you have a certain sequence of events. Not necessarily but a story has a few elements without which it seems incomplete, like a Point of view, Perspective, Morale and many more things. These are all relevant in a presentation too, you need to slowly build up the story and main topic of the presentation.

What have I done ?

What have I done, why am I sharing my experience about a normal presentation. Well this was not a normal presentation, I made the whole presentation in R programming Language using one of it’s javascript libraries — reveal.js, an open source HTML presentation framework. It’s a tool that enables anyone with a web browser to create fully-featured and beautiful presentations. Presentations made with reveal js are built on open web technologies.

To create a reveal.js presentation from R Markdown you specify the revealjs_presentation output format in the front-matter of your document.

For more details and information, check out reveal.js

You can create a slide show broken up into sections by using the # and ## heading tags (you can also create a new slide without a header using a horizontal rule (----). Here is the starting code :

---
title: "AI against COVID-19"
author: "Name of the Author"
date: 24-04-2020
output:
  revealjs::revealjs_presentation:
    theme: night
    highlight: espresso
    center: true
    transition: concave
---

Who was the target audience here ?

It was a presentation for engineering students interested in AI,ML and NLP . Mainly students with majors in Computer Science and Information Technology.

Why did I choose R and not any other platforms like Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation ?

I am interested in Data Science and for that I am learning the R Language, Since the audience were engineering college students and interested in programming, I was asked to use an open source software for making the presentation as it would make a lasting impression about the company and students would love a different approach to make a presentation.

How did I make the presentation, which was appreciated by many participating students ?

Coming back to the storyline of presentation topic — COVID-19, sequence of my story was

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