Presentation

The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate that you can:

Prepare and present a PowerPoint document describing your semester project. This presentation should be aimed at a well educated person who has little or no expertise in the field in which you are presenting. This means that your audience should understand basic statistics and can read graphs, but my not have any understanding of your data. The presentation should last 10 minutes including a time for brief questions from the audience.

The presentation should include the following:

In addition, if you wish you may describe any major problems encountered, new techniques used or any other interesting results not included above.

For the computer skills portion, the presentation must:

ItemWeight Full Partial
Contents
Project Overview 10% Thoroughly discusses the project and question. Partially discusses the project.
Data Overview 10% Thoroughly discusses relevant data. Partially discusses relevant data.
Problems with Data 10% Discusses problems with the data set, how and why these problems were addressed. Discusses problems with the dataset.
Data Analysis Technique 10% A clear presentation of a data analysis is provided. A data analysis technique is presented but some parts are unexplained.
Findings 10% Presents findings in a clear and understandable manner.
Conclusions/Future Work 10%
Formatting
Graphs 10% Graphs are labeled, readable and understandable. Information is accurately presented. Some errors in graphs.
Animation 10% At least one slide contains an animation.  
Transitions 10% A uniform transitions has been applied to all slides.
Appearance 10% Slides conform to guidelines Some guidelines violated.

Your presentation should be structured to last 10 minutes, including a brief time for questions.

The presentation is due December 3 and should be submitted to the D2L folder Project Presentation. You will give your presentation in class during the final exam period. Failure to present your findings to the class will result in a 25% reduction in the score for this measurement. Failure to attend any presentation session will result in a 10% reduction in the score for this measurement.