01 Oct 2019
Presentation Tip when you are using NUMBERS !
Help People Understand Your Data by Making It Relatable !
People can’t use data to make decisions if they don’t understand what the numbers mean !
To help colleagues wrap their heads around a data point — how big or tiny it is, how important it should seem — compare it with something concrete and relatable.
When you’re talking about lengths of TIME , frame your data in terms of flights between cities, or train journeys or road trips , or TV episodes — whatever your audience will know !
( By the time you travel between Jaipur and Delhi by road, my coding will be over ! )
When you’re talking about SIZE , use places and things that are familiar to listeners.
For instance, if you were trying to show a Kolkota audience what 1 million users ( 10 Lakhs people ) really looks like, you might mention Eden Garden cricket stadium , which has 1 lakh seats: “Our users would fill the Eden Gardens stadium almost 10 times.”
Articulating figures this way can keep the narrative from getting lost in the numbers.
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