HW4. Presenting Your Data using Voice-over-PowerPoint Now that you've got a program that can generate some data (thank heaven that's over, eh?), it's time to use that program to generate a bunch of data, and then to communicate that data in a presentation. Your HW3 program should be able to generate "raw data"... in HW4, it's your job to turn that raw data into easily understood information. You are going to tell your data's story by making a PowerPoint presentation. Your HW3 Pascal program merely had to output some data. Now you should run your HW3 program with many different initial values to get more data. The more quality data you generate, the better your HW4 presentation is likely to be. Spend some time being creative and industrious with your HW3 program to generate interesting combinations of data. After you have completed this kind of experimentation with your Pascal program, start working on presenting that data. Here are some of the ground rules for your presentation: 11 PowerPoint slides: 1. A title slide, including your name, the name and number of this class, the date and a (hopefully clever) title about your data 2, 3.and 4. Three slides that tell the story of what your simulations were about. What were you generating, and what were you measuring? 5. A slide that discusses any interesting programming challenges that you ran into while coding and/or running your simulations. If it all was boring programming, then give some details about how long the longest execution took. Tell us SOMETHING about your programming experiences in this project. 6, 7. 8 and 9. Show graphs, charts, histogram, and/or tables that illustrate how your simulations and measurements turned out. Visually tell the story of your data. Be sure to label axes or columns in a table descriptively. You may decide to use a bar chart, a scatter plot, a histogram, a table, or a combination of these. But whatever you choose, it should give us a good idea of your results. If when you make these graphs, tables, and charts it looks like you don't have enough data, feel free to generate more data in order to "fill in the gaps" in your data. If necessary, you can add an extra slide or two, but don't get carried away. If you can't think of 4 slides worth of interesting data, then go back to your HW3 program, change some of your initial values or assumptions, and generate some more data. You will have to include at least 50 points of data in your HW4 presentation. 10. A slide with a concise description of your conclusions about your data. What was the take home message of your data? What did it demonstrate to you about the experiment, the generator, or the real world of large numbers? 11. In your last slide, imagine what would be the next step in a research plan that builds upon what you discovered. How can you expand or refine what you've learned by further experiments? Next, write a script for the narration of these slides. Do NOT write lots and lots of words on the slides, or a bunch of Pascal code. NO, no, no. Your voice (narration) should supply most of the words. The slides are just visual aids in putting across the big ideas that your voice will be explaining. Your slides give the broad strokes, and the narration fills in the details.