Hotelling Society - Invited Symposium
Psychology 6140
Hotelling Society Symposium
Tips for paper presentation
PowerPoint
R Studio / knitr: beamer and ioslides
In R Studio, it is very easy to create nice slide presentations including
R graphics, R code and output from a single (reproducible) document.
You can do your analysis and write your presentation concurrently,
and knitr tools and menu items make it easy to view the
working version as you write it.
There are two basic formats:
- Rnw (for processing with LaTeX beamer), producing PDF output: Write like LaTeX,
R code in "Sweave-style" chunks
<<plot1, height=6, width=10, ...>>=
plot(1:10, 10:1, pch=16)
@
- Rmd (for processing with pandoc), producing HTML output: Write like markdown,
R code in "markdown-style" chunks
```{r plot1, height=6, width=10, ...}
plot(1:10, 10:1, pch=16)
```
Some links to get started:
R graphics tips for presentations
One good guideline is to print a copy of your graph, put it on the floor and stand
over it. If you can't read it, or see the details, revise it.
The tips below relate to graphs produced using R base graphics:
If you use lattice-based graphics, there are often different parameters controling
these things.
If you use ggplot2-based graphics, there are equivalent ways to do all these
things, but all are different. I generally use the
ggplot2 Cheatsheet, or
ggplot2 Quick Reference,
and the ggplot2 documentation
to find what I'm looking for.
ggsave() is the general way to save
a ggplot2 graphic to a file.
Tips for poster presentations
The best collection of advice and examples I've seen for designing a poster
for a scientific conference is the web page
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/posteradvice.htm.
This is probably outdated, and maybe there is something better now.
Posters can be done relatively easily in both PowerPoint and LaTeX.
The key thing is both is to set your "paper size" to the size of
your poster.
I don't have any templates or specific examples at hand.
Specifications for Proceedings Papers
Papers to be published in the Proccedings should be prepared are follows:
- Please submit camera-ready copy, with all tables and graphs included
in-line (whereever possible).
Use no cover page; rather, include title, author and affilliation
information at the top of the first page.
-
The Proceedings will accept the judicious
use of colour in tables and graphs, although it will be printed in
black and white, so design with this in mind.
- Papers should be single spaced, no more than 6 pages in
length (unless agreed in advance by the editor).
You may use two-column format if you wish.
- Page margins should be set to at least 3/4" left and right.
- Here is a Micro$oft Word template
for a two-column format (with a sample
document) you can use and/or modify if you like.
- If you use LaTeX, you may find one of these templates useful.
There is another collection on ShareLaTex,
and yet more at Overleaf.