Sharing Your Presentation Draft

Discussion Resources

The following resources will help you complete this discussion and may be useful in completing your fourth assignment.

• Nussbaumer Knaflic, C. (2015). Storytelling with data: A data visualization guide for business professionals. Wiley.
  • Chapter 8, “Bringing It All Together.”
    • This reading walks through one complete scenario: receiving raw data, understanding the context, and telling the story with a data visualization.
• Taylor, D. (2013). Add work samples to your LinkedIn profile [Video].
• Portfolio and Work Samples.

Instructions

For this discussion, post your a draft of the PowerPoint presentation you are preparing for your Unit 10 assignment. Note any specific areas you would like your peers to focus their feedback on or any questions you may have. In addition, describe how you can showcase your assignments to demonstrate your competency in this area enhancing your career prospects.

Try to post as early in the week as possible to give others time to provide thoughtful, substantive feedback.

DISCUSSION PARTICIPATION SCORING GUIDE

DISCUSSION PARTICIPATION GRADING RUBRIC

Criteria	Non-performance	Basic	Proficient	Distinguished
Apply relevant course concepts, theories, or materials correctly. 25%	Does not explain relevant course concepts, theories, or materials.	Explains relevant course concepts, theories, or materials.	Applies relevant course concepts, theories, or materials correctly.	Analyzes course concepts, theories, or materials correctly, using examples or supporting evidence.
Collaborate with fellow learners, relating the discussion to relevant course concepts. 25%	Does not collaborate with fellow learners.	Collaborates with fellow learners without relating the discussion to the relevant course concepts.	Collaborates with fellow learners, relating the discussion to relevant course concepts.	Collaborates with fellow learners, relating the discussion to relevant course concepts and extending the dialogue.
Apply relevant professional, personal, or other real-world experiences. 25%	Does not contribute professional, personal, or other real-world experiences.	Contributes professional, personal, or other real-world experiences, but contributions lack relevance.	Applies relevant professional, personal, or other real-world experiences.	Applies relevant professional, personal, or other real-world experiences to extend the dialogue.
Support position with applicable knowledge. 25%	Does not establish relevant position.	Establishes relevant position.	Supports position with applicable knowledge.	Validates position with applicable knowledge.

Presenting Data Analysis Results Effectively

Overview

Moving average calculations help interpret data. You can easily add a moving average calculation to your stock price scatterplot and use the information to add to your interpretation of the five years of stock price data. You will add the moving average calculation to your stock price scatterplot for this assignment.

How much an analysis is valued can depend heavily on how well the results of that analysis are articulated. Communicating the results of your data analysis so the applications to your business are clear and explicit can greatly enhance the value of your analytic work.

In this assignment, consider how you can best communicate the results of your enhanced business report to your supervisor and colleagues.

Review any feedback you received on your week 8 assignment, your additional moving average calculations/ information, and your draft presentation in the Unit 9 discussion to an excellent business report presentation for the assignment.

Scenario

You are a senior analyst in a business. You may choose any publicly traded company of interest that has practical meaning for you including the company you used for week 8 assignment.

Your immediate supervisor read your last analytics report on the company’s historical stock performance and was impressed with your work that she has asked you to add to the report and present the key points from that report at a company-wide meeting.

Your Role

You have been invited to present the highlights of your analytics report at an annual company-wide meeting that employees of all levels will attend. You have been allotted no more than 10 minutes and 10–12 slides. The purpose of your speech/presentation is to explain how the results of your analysis apply to the business and how the data you are presenting may impact various aspects of business context.

Instructions

Create a 10–12-slide PowerPoint presentation with detailed presenter’s notes including citations on slides and in Notes area of slide. You may also add a recorded voice-over in which you present and interpret data, graphs, descriptive statistics, etc. but the voice-over is not required.

Format your presentation as follows:

• One title slide.
• Introduction slides explaining the business context.
• Four graphics slides: one for each of the four charts in your report. Be sure to add moving average to your stock price chart.
• One slide on descriptive stats.
• Two or more conclusion slides explaining the application of each graph in the chosen business context.
• One slide calling for discussion and questions.
• One slide thanking everyone for their attention.
• One slide with APA-formatted references.

Additional Requirements

• Eliminate all bias from your presentation by using supported facts.
• Use short but complete sentences that are clear, comprehensible, and free of jargon for each bullet point.
• Include no more than five bullet points per slide if possible.
• Include APA-formatted in-text citations where appropriate
• Ensure your presentation is relevant to and easily understood by everyone in the audience. Remember, you will be speaking to people of all levels in the company.
• If you include a voice-over in lieu of presenter’s notes, your recording should be no longer than 10 minutes.
• Your written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• Include an APA-formatted references slide at the end of the presentation.

Evaluation

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through corresponding scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Explain how data management techniques and tools are used to support business decisions.
  • Describe the company background and the practical business context.
  • Explain how the results of the data analysis can be applied to the business context.
• Competency 4: Present the results of data analysis in clear and meaningful ways to multiple stakeholders.
  • Interpret or explain the meaning of the four different graphical representations of data.
  • Format citations and references correctly, using current APA style.
  • Present content clearly, professionally, and logically for the identified audience
    

    Presenting Data Analysis Results Effectively Scoring Guide

    CRITERIA	NON-PERFORMANCE	BASIC	PROFICIENT	DISTINGUISHED
    Describe the company background and the practical business context. 20%	Does not describe the company background or the practical business context.	Describes the company background or the business context, but not both.	Describes the company background and the practical business context.	Thoroughly describes the company background and the practical business context using examples and details that demonstrate exemplary understanding.
    Interpret or explain the meaning of the four different graphical representations of data. 20%	Does not describe the four different graphical representations of data.	Interprets or explains the different graphical representations of data but indicates lack of professional understanding of the graphs in context.	Interprets or explains the meaning of the four different graphical representations of data.	Interprets and explains thoughtfully the four different graphical representations of data in a way that indicates exceptional understanding of the strategies and provides examples from the field.
    Explain how the results of the data analysis can be applied to the business context. 20%	Does not explain how the results of the data analysis can be applied to the business context.	Partially explains how some results of the data analysis could be applied to the business context, or application is irrelevant to the context.	Explains how the results of the data analysis can be applied to the business context.	Explains in detail how the results of the data analysis can be applied to the business context and provides specific examples.
    Format citations and references correctly, using current APA style. 20%	Does not format citations and references using APA style.	Formats citations and references with errors in APA style.	Formats citations and references correctly, using current APA style.	Formats citations and references flawlessly in current APA style.
    Present content clearly, professionally, and logically for the identified audience. 20%	Does not present content clearly, professionally, or logically for the identified audience.	Presents content with some flaws in organization or clarity that affect professional delivery for the identified audience.	Presents content clearly, professionally, and logically for the identified audience.	Presents content with exceptional clarity, organization, professionalism, and appropriateness for the identified audience.

  • Planning Ahead: Presenting Data Analysis Results Effectively

    For your Unit 10 assignment, you will assume the role of a senior analyst in a business who has been asked to make a company-wide presentation of your analytics report, including a PowerPoint deck with recorded voice-over or detailed presenter’s notes. You will have the opportunity to share a draft of your presentation with your peers in this unit’s discussion to solicit feedback before submitting your final assignment. In preparation for the assignment, read the full instructions and scoring guide to ensure that you understand all criteria, and begin preparing your draft, in which you will present and interpret four graphs from the report you created in the last two assignments. Format your presentation as follows:

    • 1 title slide.
    • 1 introduction slide explaining the business context.
    • 4 graphics slides: one for each of the four charts in your report, with interpretations of each representation.
    • 2 conclusion slides explaining how the data analysis results can be applied in the chosen business context.
    • 1 slide with APA-formatted references.