Question
What tools do data scientists use for presentations?
Answer
Quite a number of data scientists I know (myself included) use reveal.js. There are a few things that makes reveal.js nice to use:
- It integrates well with version control systems such as git.
- The fact that the presentation is hosted as a web page means that you don't need to send around PowerPoint files anymore. Just send around the link will be sufficient, and the audience will always access the newest version.
- It has a lot of bells and whistles built-in if you are willing to fiddle with html/css. Check out this presentation on reveal.js, made using, well, reveal.js.
- Editing the slide is actually pretty easy - most of the presentation I make can be handled with basic markdown syntax.
With that said, it's not without its drawbacks:
- If your presentation has to be modified by people who are not used to coding, it can be a no-go right off the bat.
- If you have confidential info in your presentation and your company doesn't have a infrastructure to host these presentations (as in a secure internal web server), you may have to set up servers yourself...
- Exact adjustments and placements with multiple elements (text boxes, tables, images, ... etc) is much easier to do in PowerPoint.
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