Welcome to Structure of a Presentation. After watching this video, you will be able to structure your presentation in a systematic manner and present a compelling story of your analysis. Suppose you have performed significant work on the available raw data, analyzing the data to gain valuable insights. You've also created charts, graphs, and dashboards providing a clearer picture of the information. Now you're tasked with presenting your findings and solutions to stakeholders. You are considering using a presentation tool like PowerPoint to create your presentation. However, given the voluminous amount of information at your disposal, it is crucial to determine what and how much of the information you should include in your presentation. It's important to make these decisions depending on the audience and the purpose of your presentation. For instance, if your audience consists of data professionals, you will need to delve into the technical details of the software and methods used to derive your results. Whereas if you're addressing the management, who will be using your findings, for business decision-making, then you should focus on presenting the finding and the best possible solutions you visualize. Additionally, it's important to understand the specific purpose for seeking insights from the data. Based on this knowledge, you can tailor your presentation to provide the most relevant information that serves the intended purpose. Before you begin creating your presentation, list the points you intend to cover. Next, let's explore a broad structure you could follow for your presentation. Your presentation should include an introduction, body, and conclusion. Let's dive deep into each of these elements. Your presentation's introduction should comprise the cover slide, a small introduction setting the context for the presentation, and the table of contents. The cover slide should feature the title of the presentation and the name of the authors. If your presentation is on behalf of a team or organization, ensure including the related details in the slide. Next, include an introduction that sets the context for the presentation or builds relevance. Include a brief background, the problem statement, and the purpose of the presentation. This section should give your audience a clear idea of what to expect. You should incorporate a table of contents and ideally link the items to their specific sections or slides in your presentation. This allows your audience to navigate to the information they're most interested in. After the introductory section comes the body of the presentation. The body is the longest part of your presentation. Here, you'll dive into the details of your findings or data analysis, organized into distinct sections and topics. You could use the following format while presenting each of your findings. First, begin with articulating the problem statement, then explain the methodology used to conduct the analysis. This includes providing details on the data, tools, and approaches used in your analysis. Next, in the results section, present your findings and support it with graphs, charts, and tables. Lastly, highlight the key findings and explain the implications of the findings. Let's consider an example to illustrate how this plays out. Suppose you're presenting your analysis on the impact of advertising on sales revenue. You would start with the problem statement. Does increasing the advertisement expenses result in higher sales revenue? Next, you explain the methodology used to conduct your analysis. For instance, you used regression analysis to determine the relationship between the advertisement expenses and the sales revenue over a year. Next, your findings suggest that there is a positive correlation between the two variables. Support your explanation with regression graphs and statistics suggesting the strength of the correlation. Lastly, you would explain the implications of your findings on predicting sales when advertising expenses are provided or recommending the potential cost of advertising to meet a specific sales target. The last section of your presentation is the conclusion. The conclusion will include a summary, an appendix section, and an acknowledgments and credit section. The summary should provide a brief recap of all the information that the audience should retain from the presentation. The appendix is supplementary materials that you couldn't include in the body of the presentation, but you still consider it important. It included lists like location or product lists, calculations, and other additional information that support the information shared in the body of the presentation. Finally, acknowledgments and credits include a mention of individuals and resources that have contributed toward creating the presentation. With this, you have now come to the end of the video. Let's recap what you've learned so far. In this video, you learned how to structure a presentation and tell a compelling story of your analysis. As a first step, determine what and how much information to include. This decision is based on who the audience is and the purpose of the presentation. The presentation includes an introduction, body, and conclusion. The introduction includes the cover slide, contextual introduction, and the table of contents. The body is organized into sections and topics. The findings will be presented by stating the problem statement, explaining the methodology, explaining the findings, and lastly stating the implications of the findings. The conclusion section includes the summary, appendix, and the acknowledgments and credits.