3 ways to present your data analytics findings
Overview
Have you wondered how to present your data analytics findings to your colleagues, bosses or shareholders? Are you thinking of the best method to present with minimum effort? Here are 3 ways that I would like to share with you.
- The Beginner — Microsoft Powerpoint
- The Intermediate — Tableau
- The Advance — Canva + Powerpoint + Tableau
1. The Beginner
Powerpoint has always been the number 1 user-friendly app for office workers especially when doing presentation. SmartArt is one of the easiest ways to create infographics.
More importantly, everyone should have microsoft powerpoint installed in their PC. Hence, there should not be any issues when sending your presentations to others. For more information on how to make an infographic in powerpoint, you can refer to here.
2. The Intermediate
Tableau has always been the world’s leading analytics platform. Instead of coding, one can create many charts within a few minutes just by drag and drop method. There are also many awesome design at Tableau Public and most of them are free to adapt and use.
The different between powerpoint and tableau is that tableau allows users to interact with the infographics directly. Other users can change the filters, parameters and even create their own personal dashboards with editor access. Compared to powerpoint, powerpoint is statics and is more towards management reporting or general presentation.
3. The Advance
Sometimes, the tradeoff in creating beautiful dashboard or infographics is time. We may not have the luxury to spend hours in creating beautiful images in our infographics. However, if we use the standard powerpoint elements (e.g. smart charts) or tableau standard charts, it will be boring to users. That’s why Canva comes into the rescue! There are many pre-build templates for you to choose in Canva. Be it powerpoint, posters, infographics or even instagram post!
The infographics is from CANVA. We can use it as a starting step and customise the colours, wordings and even add in our own images and charts to it. The best thing is — it can be exported to powerpoint or as an image. Hence, we can use this as a background in our powerpoint or tableau dashboard. This certainly saves us lots of time!
Conclusion
Due to how fast-pace the world is changing, we do not have the time to spend time creating everything from scratch. This includes data analytics, presentations or even FAQs. The skillset that we need to learn is how we can source for better tools that can help us convey our message in the shortest time, without compromising on the quality of the message.
