EXCELLENT start!

Use no font smaller than 20 points, and stay with 30pt if you want people to actually read something. (Projectors and displays are hard enough to read, as is.)

Use "builds". Every word you put on the screen will be read by everyone in the room, faster than you can say it. Do not read the words. Hit the button, let the words display, count to 3 seconds, and then ADD to the words that are on the screen by speaking about the point shown on screen.

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Reading what is on the screen is annoying to the audience, and makes them feel like you are treating them like children.

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Give people a moment to read and digest your words. Then add something material to the idea. So sentences can be short, and even incomplete. Questions also work.

For example, the bullet point on screen says: Traffic heat maps provide one valuable data vector

Then you follow up with: "I also found it was important to map this data in conjunction with the size and number of floors of the buildings found at the "hottest" points in my map..."

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"Because a 20-story office building is obviously going to have heavier traffic than a 2-story one."

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Most people would present this as a couple of sentences and a big graphic of a heat map. But then you have to leave the audience time to read all the text, grok the image, re-read the text, and then re-assess the meaning of the heat map in light of the text.

Yeah, my method can seem like you are spoon-feeding them, but there is a fine line here, and the end result is that you want them to take away 2 or 3 key things.

So give them something valuable first. Then INCREASE the value of that information with more detail, or surrounding data. That gets people to the "a-ha!" moment faster, than if you wait for them to figure it out themselves.

You can then refer to this a-ha moment in your conclusion, to remind them of this little discovery in your wrap up.

Good luck with your presentation!!