Verbal communication

Apart from visual demonstrations of data, verbal communication is just as important when presenting results. If you are not merely uploading results or publishing, you are usually presenting data to a room of data scientists and executives or to a conference hall.

In any case, there are key areas to focus on when giving a verbal presentation, especially when the presentation regards findings in data.

There are generally two styles of oral presentation: one meant for more professional settings, including corporate offices where the problem at hand is usually tied directly to company performance or some other key performance indicator (KPI), and another meant more for a room of your peers where the key idea is to motivate the audience to care about your work.

It’s about telling a story

Whether it is a formal or casual presentation, people like to hear stories. When you are presenting results, you are not just spitting out facts and metrics; you...