OPF Audience
Academic
Researchers, professors, and students who expect rigorous methodology, citations, and evidence-based conclusions. Cite every source, show confidence intervals, be transparent about method, and leave marketing language out. Chart density can be high; 20-50 slides with time reserved for questions.
academicadvisoryhigh density
Audience
Academic
advisory · 60 min
technical
formal
Density
high
Seniority
Mixed
Technical Fluency
High
Decision Power
Advisory
Attention Budget
60 minutes
Recommended Tones
Technical, Formal
Slide Count
20-50 slides with Q&A buffer
Industry Fit
academia, research institutions, think tanks
Design Principles
1
Cite all sources
2
Show confidence intervals
3
Methodological transparency
4
No marketing language
Recommended Companions
OPF Config
audiences:academicOPF JSON
{
"$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
"name": "PPTX.gallery — audiences/academic",
"description": "Researchers, professors, and students expecting rigorous methodology, citations, and evidence-based conclusions.",
"audience": [
"academic"
],
"narrative": "data-story",
"tone": "technical",
"takeaway": "Researchers, professors, and students expecting rigorous methodology, citations, and evidence-based conclusions.",
"tags": [
"gallery:audiences/academic"
],
"design": {
"colorScheme": "slate-gray"
},
"slides": [
{
"id": "gallery-preview-1",
"layout": "chart",
"title": "Academic",
"subtitle": "Researchers, professors, and students expecting rigorous methodology, citations, and evidence-based conclusions."
}
],
"catalogs": {
"default": {
"source": "https://www.pptx.gallery",
"narratives": {
"data-story": {
"name": "Data Story",
"summary": "A data-first narrative that builds from evidence to insight to action, ideal for analysts and data-driven teams.",
"description": "A data-first narrative that builds from evidence to insight to action. Set the analytical context and the question the data answers, reveal the headline finding, walk through the supporting analysis and its sources, explain what it means for the business, then make a specific recommendation with its confidence level and assumptions. The tone is analytical and inductive: it builds up from data to insight. Best for analytical briefings, data team presentations, research readouts, and business reviews; typical decks run 6-15 slides.",
"audienceFit": [
"data-teams",
"operations-and-finance",
"product-managers",
"analytics-stakeholders"
],
"duration": {
"min": 10,
"max": 30
},
"tags": [
"analytics",
"data",
"insight",
"recommendation"
],
"beats": [
{
"id": "context",
"name": "Context",
"description": "Frame why this analysis matters now. What question is this data answering?",
"instructions": "Set up the business question and data scope.",
"type": "list",
"layout": "list"
},
{
"id": "key-finding",
"name": "Key Finding",
"description": "State the single most important thing the data shows. One slide, one insight.",
"instructions": "State the one finding the audience must remember.",
"type": "metric",
"layout": "metrics"
},
{
"id": "analysis",
"name": "Analysis",
"description": "Unpack the data rigorously. Show sources, methodology, and supporting charts.",
"instructions": "Explain the drivers behind the finding.",
"type": "chart",
"layout": "chart"
},
{
"id": "implications",
"name": "Implications",
"description": "Translate findings into business language. What does this mean for strategy, operations, or customers?",
"instructions": "Translate the analysis into business consequences.",
"type": "text",
"layout": "two-column"
},
{
"id": "recommendation",
"name": "Recommendation",
"description": "Make an explicit, actionable recommendation backed by the data. Include confidence level and assumptions.",
"instructions": "Recommend the next decision or action.",
"type": "text",
"layout": "list"
}
]
}
},
"audiences": {
"academic": {
"name": "Academic",
"summary": "Researchers, professors, and students expecting rigorous methodology, citations, and evidence-based conclusions.",
"description": "Researchers, professors, and students who expect rigorous methodology, citations, and evidence-based conclusions. Cite every source, show confidence intervals, be transparent about method, and leave marketing language out. Chart density can be high; 20-50 slides with time reserved for questions.",
"seniority": "mixed",
"technicalFluency": "high",
"decisionPower": "advisory",
"attentionBudgetMinutes": 60,
"recommendedNarratives": [
"data-story",
"situation-complication-resolution"
],
"recommendedTones": [
"technical",
"formal"
],
"tags": [
"research",
"education",
"analytical"
]
}
},
"tones": {
"technical": {
"name": "Technical",
"summary": "Precise, evidence-led voice for engineering, research, and product-detail audiences.",
"description": "Lead with the question or claim, then walk through the mechanism and the numbers. Use exact terminology; assume the audience can handle and prefers it. Diagrams, tables, and benchmarks are first-class.",
"voiceCues": [
"State the claim, then the mechanism, then the evidence.",
"Use exact terminology — don't soften technical terms for general readability.",
"Quote benchmarks with conditions (cold/warm, p50/p95/p99, dataset, hardware).",
"Prefer diagrams and tables over prose paragraphs for structural information."
],
"avoid": [
"Vague claims ('much faster', 'better', 'easier').",
"Marketing framing without supporting data.",
"Glossing over caveats and tradeoffs.",
"Casual register that obscures precision."
],
"samplePhrases": [
"p95 inference latency is 38ms on a single A100, down from 312ms on the prior runtime.",
"We replaced the streaming serializer with a batched protobuf path; throughput rose 4.2× under load.",
"The result holds for context windows up to 32k tokens; beyond that, see appendix B."
],
"recommendedNarratives": [
"challenge-resolution",
"innovation",
"conference-talk",
"status-update"
],
"tags": [
"technical",
"engineering",
"research"
]
}
},
"colorSchemes": {
"slate-gray": {
"name": "Slate Gray",
"accent1": "#9E9E9E",
"accent2": "#424242",
"accent3": "#616161",
"accent4": "#757575",
"accent5": "#9E9E9E",
"accent6": "#212121",
"dark1": "#000000",
"dark2": "#1B1B1B",
"followedHyperlink": "#424242",
"hyperlink": "#212121",
"light1": "#FFFFFF",
"light2": "#F8F8F8",
"summary": "Neutral gray palette for understated executive communication.",
"description": "A disciplined gray scale with strong neutral contrast. Use it when the content should feel calm, mature, and analytical.",
"tags": [
"neutral",
"minimal",
"mature",
"analytical",
"restrained"
]
}
},
"layouts": {
"chart": {
"name": "Chart",
"summary": "One to six charts, with an optional note.",
"tags": [
"Visuals"
],
"direction": "column",
"regions": [
{
"name": "title"
},
{
"name": "charts",
"accepts": [
"chart",
"group"
],
"role": "primary",
"flow": "grid"
},
{
"name": "note",
"size": "auto",
"accepts": [
"text"
],
"role": "supporting",
"flow": "none"
}
],
"description": "Give a chart enough space to show its evidence. Use the title to state the conclusion and labels to explain the measures.",
"preview": {
"vectorSrc": "https://www.pptx.gallery/layout-previews/chart.svg"
}
}
}
}
}
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