This tag groups questions regarding general aspects of presenting data to the user.
Questions tagged [presentation]
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Best font size for Latex Beamer
I am preparing a presentation in latex using the beamer package. I am wondering what font size "pros" who give a lot of presentations use to make sure people in the back of the room can see. The default font size seems a bit small to me.

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Set header and footer reveal.js presentation
I want to set a header and footer in my presentation. I used the following issue as a starting point: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/issues/806 and http://www.ciges.net/revealjs_demo/#/
My current implementation gives the following…

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force column break in RMarkdown ioslides {.columns-2} layout
When preparing a presentation with RMarkdown's ioslides, I encountered a problem which I have not been able to find a solution for. This answer did also not solve this specific problem.
Sometimes, two-column layouts are best to explain something…

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add local image file in R presentation
I'm trying to include one imaging file (.png) using R markdown for R presentation.
I followed the suggestion from: How to import local image using knitr for markdown
but by using , I get this error:
Error: unexpected '[' in…

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Powerpoint viewer for react?
I searched a lot for this but couldn't find any package or a guide on how to view a ".ppt" file on a webpage using react.js.
I'm allowing the user to upload a ".ppt" file, and I want him to be able to view that "Powerpoint" file in a web page, is…

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How to put a big centered "Thank You" in a LaTeX slide
I want a "Thank you" to be displayed at the center of a slide in LaTeX with a big font size.

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embedding a R animated 3D plot in PowerPoint
The rgl R package allows to plot interactive 3D figures and to save these figures in a html document (with the writeWebGL() function).
I would like to put such an interactive 3D figure in a PowerPoint presentation. Is it possible ?
EDIT: After…

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HTML presentation slides with Python syntax highlighting
I'd like to create slides for my presentation. My presentation will contain these: slide title, bullet points, code snippets (in a monospace font), some code lines highlighted as bold, Python code snippets (with syntax highlighting).
I need an…

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How to do a presentation for your co-workers containing lots of code?
I'm supposed to do a presentation for my co-workers on a web framework I evaluated. These people are developers and hate long and boring PowerPoint stuff, so I got lots of little code snippets. I also put together a small sample application. My…

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How to convert a S5 presentation into PDF?
I am using reStructuredText & rst2s5 to create S5 slide presentations. It is great but I also want to have the presentation in PDF. How can I convert S5 to PDF?
S5 are HTML based... one of S5 features is to create print-outs of your presentation. So…

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How to present your code to potential buyers?
I'll do a demo of my code to slightly non-technical audience, and I need to show them what I've got in my project (about 15K lines of code). I'm trying to convince them that I've spend time on the project and it's in a good state.
These guys…

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Control size of figure in Rstudio presentation
I'm creating a presentation in RStudio (.Rpres). I have a figure that is too large and extends beyond the screen. How can I reduce it?
Too big, need to reduce size
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Open Source HTML5 Online Powerpoint Viewer
I wondered if anyone is aware of any online powerpoint viewers that are open source?
I've looked at http://www.accusoft.com/products/viewer/on-premise/info/overview/ which is the closest thing but it only works with web based documents, mine will be…

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Reveal.js HTML Code syntax highlighting without rendering it
Question for reveal.js users.
I am trying to show a HTML markup in my reveal.js presentation. Issue is it renders the html block within my Code syntax highlighting block so the markup can not be seen.
Is there a way around this?
example…

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Presentation, Business and Data Layer
I just started programming in C# and was reading about dividing your application / website into the three different layers was the best practice but I am having a hard time understanding exactly how. Im working on a pet project to lean more about C#…

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