Oral Presentation

Due by 11:59 PM on Monday, April 19, 2021
  • 04/19 & 04/22/2021: Each group delivers an oral presentation using the group’s presentation document

Group Presentation Requirements

  • Your group must prepare a 20-25 minute oral presentation to be delivered in person or on Zoom.
  • There are two deliverables: A presentation document with the slides and the actual group oral presentation to the class using the slides.
    • No R code should be shown during the presentation (unless it is really cool R code).

Presentation Document

  • Each group will prepare a document in R Markdown or other powerpoint tools using a slide output format.
  • Presentation documents will be submitted in PDF format.
  • If you decide to use R for the slides, you may also change the .Rmd output to another format such as PowerPoint for final formatting if desired.
    • If you do so, submit those documents in original and PDF format as well as the original .Rmd file and its PDF
  • The presentation document must be consistent with the final report and include the following elements:

  1. Title Page: include the title of the project, the type of analysis (research or application), the date and the names and course of all group members.

  2. Executive Summary: One slide summarizing the context, the primary questions of interest, the data source, the overall approach, and significant findings and/or recommendations.

  3. Introduction: provide context for why and how you are doing the analysis.

  • What is the motivation for the analysis and what are the overarching research/business questions of interest?
  • What is the data source, the general nature of the variables, and the time period of the data.
  • Include a brief literature review and cite peer-reviewed or widely-published articles related to your questions of interest.
    • You may want to use a publication search engine such as Google Scholar.
    • Cite as many articles as individuals in your study group.
  1. Initial Hypotheses: State what variables and relationships your group specifically wants to analyze based on your literature review and questions of interest, before tidying or looking at the data
  • i.e., is variable X associated with variable Y, or is the association mediated through a third variable.

  1. Data Preparation: Describe any significant challenges in tidying the data and your approach to overcoming the challenges.

  2. Exploratory Data Analysis and Statistical Analysis: Use multiple slides to describe your analysis of the initial and/or adjusted hypotheses and the key results

  • Do not just include all your output from R as you will run out of room.
  • Describe your EDA on key variables and relationships using numerical and graphical summaries.
  • Show important graphs and any numerical summaries from statistical analyses you could have performed
  • Use Slide Titles, Captions and/or bullets to provide your interpretations
  • If the analysis changed your hypotheses, explain the rationale for change
  • State new hypotheses and any results.
  • Summarize your analysis and results in specific findings for each hypothesis.
  1. Summary:
  • Include a brief discussion of what your findings mean in the overall context of the literature and research or business situation.
  • Discuss your findings relative to your questions of interest and any recommendations for future work or implementation.

Oral Presentation

  • Use your presentation document to present your project to the other members of the class.
  • Everyone from the group must participate in the presentation.
  • If something known prevents a person from attending the class group presentation, the individual must coordinate with their group to present a pre-recorded video of their portion of the presentation during the group presentation.
    • If an emergency prevents attendance, the individual must submit a recording of their portion of the presentation as soon as possible after the class.
  • Each presentation will be a combination of group and individual grades
  • Each presentation will be evaluated by all other members of the class no in the group.

Grading Rubric - Document (20 Pts)

Question.Part: Points Topic
Presentation.Format 3. Clean Style and Easy to read and reference. Slides are not “too busy” or overcrowded. No typographical errors
Presentation.Title Page 1. Correct Elements
Presentation.Exec Summary 2. Effectively conveys the situation, the approach, and key findings and recommendations
Presentation.Introduction 1. Complete Motivation, Data Description, and Literature
Presentation.Initial Hypotheses 2. Discussion of variables and relationships is consistent with Introduction
Presentation.Data Preparation 2. Covers relevant details to set up the analysis
Presentation.EDA and Statistical Analysis 8. Tells a “story” in a logical order showing appropriate EDA and Statistical methods with proper interpretations
Presentation.Summary 1. Captures Main findings and recommendations relevant to Questions if Interest
Total 20

Grading Rubric - Presentation (10 Pts)

Question.Part: Points Topic
Individual Presentation 2. Demonstrates knowledge of material.
Individual Presentation 2. Presentation style: confident, articulate, focused, and timely.
Individual Presentation 2. Able to answer questions on the presentation
Presentation.Peer Assessments 4. Was the presentation style professional? Was the presentation convincing?
Total 10

Last updated on March 3, 2021

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