GitPitch Presentation Of The Day #3
Learn how to turn your data into beautiful charts on any slide within your slideshow presentations.
This post is the third in the Presentation of the Day series where I take a few minutes to highlight some of the great work developed and promoted within the GitPitch community. You can find a link to earlier posts in this series along with related content on this blog here.
Drum Roll Please…
Without further ado I’m delighted to introduce the third GitPitch Presentation of the Day:

This presentation was created by the good people at Better Code Hub. They have created a fantastic service on GitHub that guides developers in writing better code. As a developer myself, I’m always happy to find new ways to improve the quality of my own work. And based on the initial score one of my projects received from Better Code Hub, clearly I’ve still got plenty to learn ;-)
You can go directly to the GitHub repo for this GitPitch presentation to look over the presentation PITCHME.md markdown and PITCHME.yaml to see exactly how the presentation was created:
Presentation Tips & Tricks!
In keeping with one of my goals for this Presentation of the Day series I’m going to use this post to highlight some powerful GitPitch features used by today’s featured presentation.
So today I’m going to focus on two interesting features that lend real punch to the visual look and feel of any presentation: charts and background images.
Present Your Data As Eye-Catching Charts
By leveraging the wonderful chartjs.org plugin (shoutout to @rajgoel) GitPitch can be used to turn your data into a wide range of beautifully rendered charts.
The process of adding a chart to any slide, achieved using a simple JSON string added to your markdown, is described on the GitPitch Wiki here.

As you can see above, the results are truly eye-catching. So often, a picture, or in this case a chart, provides a highly effective and visually pleasing way of presenting data to any audience.
Background Images — The Ultimate Customization
The use of background images is probably the single most effective feature provided by GitPitch to create a strong visual identity for any presentation. Today’s feature presentation makes excellent use of just 3 distinct background images to deliver a visually compelling and unique presentation:

A simple background setting can be used in your PITCHME.md to identify a default background image that will be automatically rendered by GitPitch for every slide in your presentation:
background: assets/wallpaper-gray.jpgThis default background image can also be overridden on a per-slide basis if you need to inject some custom visuals for specific slides. For example, today’s featured presentation overrides the default image on the opening slide as follows:
---?image=assets/bch-bg.pngInstructions for using this type of image slide-delimiter is described in detail on the GitPitch Wiki here.
From Zero To Presentation Hero
GitPitch lets you effortlessly craft and share beautiful content about the things you care about. Use it to promote, pitch or present absolutely anything ;) With features like charts and background images, GitPitch makes sure you have the tools you need to deliver presentations with visual impact.
If you have your own presentation that you think would be a good candidate for GitPitch Presentation of the Day please get in touch.

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