3 minutes isn’t very long.
Talking super fast isn’t the solution. Being very focused is.
Your audience: the other students in this class (not me!). Your goal is to entice them into looking further at your repo, or reading your report.
A rough guide:
Tell us what the goal of your project is, and why it is interesting/fun/useful.
Describe one result or example.
Tell us what else we might find if we visit the repo.
(3 mins) Brainstorm and write down:
Goal: What is the goal of your project?
Motivation Why it is interesting/fun/useful?
(6 mins)
Get into groups of two or three. Designate a speaking order and a timer.
Each person gets a strict 60 seconds, to describe the goal and motivation for their project.
How did it go? Was anything missing, e.g. do your listeners have questions? Was anything redundant?
(2 mins)
Plan… on your next attempt (same topic) you’ll aim for 30 seconds.
(3 mins)
Each person gets a strict 30 seconds, to describe the goal and motivation for their project.
Your talk is 3 minutes. You could practice 5 times and only have used 15 minutes. Do it!
You must have a title slide, that includes:
In conference scenarios, it is this slide someone might take a photo of to remind them to look into your work, in which case:
With three minutes we won’t have time to read your slides and listen to you.
Use the slides just as visual aids, don’t expect us to see anything you don’t point out verbally.
RMarkdown has some presentation ouputs: https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/presentations.html
Xaringan is another popular package for HTML presentations from Rmarkdown https://github.com/yihui/xaringan
Or use Keynote, Powerpoint or Google Slides, export to PDF and store the PDF in your repo.
You will email me (wickhamc@oregonstate.edu) the link to the PDF/HTML slides by noon the day before your presentation – but you can update the content at the link up until the time you present.
Due date for the project is Sunday Dec 2nd at midnight. You submit a link to your repo on canvas.
Your repo must include:
Must:
Preferably written in RMarkdown – ensures reproducibility. (play with fig.height to get better sized figures)
Audience: me, but also think of it as a summary for someone outside the class (i.e. a potential employer).
Make sure to point out anything you did to “Exceed Expectations”.
I’ll visit your README first.
It should:
give pointers to someone who wants to reproduce your work, e.g.:
Long form documentation for R packages: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/vignettes.html
Right now your project is currently Private. But I hope by the end of the quarter you will have produced a project you are proud to share.
To share it with the class: Add the “Students Team” https://github.com/ST541-Fall2018/{YOUR_REPO_NAME}/settings/collaboration
To share it publically you should move it to your own github account (i.e. out of the class organization). Two good options:
Transfer the repo. Keeps all history and github features like issues. You’ll need to talk to me to get this done.
Clone and push to a new repo. Set up a new repo in your personal account. Then set this as the new remote for your current working copy. Get a clean slate for issues, but keeps all commit history.
Github has some nice integration with jekyll to create websites for yourself or any github projects.
See: https://pages.github.com/
For example, https://github.com/ST541-Fall2018/classroom generates http://stat541.cwick.co.nz