ETC5523: Communicating with Data

Oral Presentations

Important

You can view the oral presentation schedule online here.

🎯 Objectives

• Practice your verbal communication skills to your peers

Important

In Week 1, your tutor will have a sign-up sheet for presentations. Please only sign up to a tutorial you can attend!

If you miss your tutorial, then you can either:

• Pick another topic that hasn’t already been signed up for or,
• Schedule your presentation to be performed within 7 days with the Chief Examiner. Please email the Chief Examiner to set up this time.

This assignment makes up 5% of your final grade for the unit.

Presentation format

• Maximum time: 5 minutes
• No slides
• Concise and clear communication will be rewarded.

Topics

Week	Topic 1	Topic 2	Topic 3
2	The art of rhetorics	Demonstrate how to ask a good question, and why	The differences between linear and transactional communication models
3	Best practices when including data in your narrative	What are the elements of a good story?	How to capture an audience
4	Different narrative structures for different reports	Richard Mayer’s learning principles	Key elements for presenting data in a presentation
5	Quarto vs RMarkdown: Key differences	Writing Markdown for reports and slides	Web directories and servers
6	Which statistics should you present?	Key elements of a good table
7	Choices of plots for different purposes	Importance of unifying visual elements in a plot	Different graphics libraries for producing plots
8	How are web pages styled?	Writing in HTML vs PDF vs docx	Benefits of using Quarto for scientific writing
9	Basic elements of good function documentation	Key roxygen elements and their purpose	R Package structure
10	Why should we use a dashboard?	Reactive programming and shiny	Deploying web applications
11	Communicating with code: Key concepts	Workflows for deploying package documentation	How is code documentation part of communication?
12	How do we ensure we can find information quickly?	Challenges of data governance when communicating	What are our responsibilities when publishing mass communication?

Marking Rubric

Maximum grade: 5 marks

0. No presentation, or completely incorrect information
1. Presentation has clearly incorrect elements with little to no understanding
2. Presentation shows limited understanding, insufficient detail provided
3. Presentation shows some understanding, with some detail
4. Presentation gives good accompanying details, and a strong understanding of the topic
5. Presentation is complete and comprehensive without being verbose. Demonstrated clear understanding of the topic and has explained the details clearly.

1 mark deduced per 30 seconds over 5 minutes.