12 Producing effective presentations

 

This chapter covers

  • Presenting your results to project sponsors
  • Communicating with your model’s end users
  • Presenting your results to fellow data scientists

In the previous chapter, you saw how to effectively document your day-to-day project work and how to deploy your model into production. This included the additional documentation needed to support operations teams. In this chapter, we’ll look at how to present the results of your project to other interested parties. As we see in the mental model (figure 12.1), this chapter is all about documentation and presentation.

Figure 12.1. Mental model

We’ll continue with the example from the last chapter.

Example

Suppose your company (let’s call it WVCorp) makes and sells home electronic devices and associated software and apps. WVCorp wants to monitor topics on the company’s product forums and discussion board to identify “about-to-buzz” issues: topics that are poised to generate a lot of interest and active discussion. This information can be used by product and marketing teams to proactively identify desired product features for future releases, and to quickly discover issues with existing product features. Your team has successfully built a model to identify about-to-buzz topics on the forum. Now you want to explain the project results to the project sponsor, and also to the product managers, marketing managers, and support engineering managers who will be using the results of your model.

12.1. Presenting your results to the project sponsor

12.1.1. Summarizing the project’s goals

12.1.2. Stating the project’s results

12.1.3. Filling in the details

12.1.4. Making recommendations and discussing future work

12.1.5. Project sponsor presentation takeaways

12.2. Presenting your model to end users

12.2.1. Summarizing the project goals

12.2.2. Showing how the model fits user workflow

12.2.3. Showing how to use the model

12.2.4. End user presentation takeaways

12.3. Presenting your work to other data scientists