beamer-presentation_skill

Overview

This skill creates polished academic presentations in LaTeX Beamer tailored for economists. It supplies ready-to-use templates, theme recommendations, and slide structures for conference talks, job market talks, and seminars. The outputs focus on clear storylines, reproducible figures and tables, and professional aesthetics.

How this skill works

I guide users through a short intake (presentation type, topic, audience level, style preferences) and generate a Beamer template prefilled with a logical slide order and examples for motivation, identification, results, and conclusion. Templates include theme, color settings, common packages, incremental reveal commands, and appendix/backups. I also provide timing-aware slide counts and practical LaTeX snippets for figures, tables, and regression output.

When to use it

• Preparing a 15–20 minute conference presentation from a paper
• Developing a 45–90 minute seminar or job-market talk
• Converting an existing paper into concise, slide-ready form
• Creating a consistent slide deck for a research group or course
• Producing backup slides and reproducible Beamer code for Q&A

Best practices

• One main idea per slide; split complex ideas across slides
• Use minimal text (3–6 words per bullet) and large fonts (≥20pt)
• Prefer figures over dense tables and highlight key magnitudes
• Reveal complex content incrementally with \pause or overlay syntax
• Prepare appendix slides with robustness checks and data details

Example use cases

• Generate a 20-minute conference talk template with 10–12 slides following motivation → question → method → results → conclusion
• Produce a job-market deck using a conservative theme and custom institutional colors
• Build a 90-minute seminar template with literature, theory, and extended empirical sections
• Create Beamer code that includes sample regression tables and a main-result figure placeholder
• Produce backup slides for anticipated questions and robustness tests