Description:

This workshop explains how to create animated data visualizations in PowerPoint with Python.

PowerPoint is the most popular data visualization tool. Even users of BI platforms like Tableau, Power BI, etc copy-paste screenshots into PowerPoint. What if we could create them natively?

In PyCon 2013, I talked about how Python can automate PowerPoint. This was restricted to Windows users.

Two things have happened since. Creating OfficeXML files (on Linux) is easier. PowerPoint has a number of new features -- notably the morph transition. This lets us create animated slides quite easily.

Prerequisites:

You need these installed on your system:

• Python
• Gramex
• PowerPoint (ideally -- but OpenOffice / LibreOffice is fine, too)

Content URLs:

Documentation & Tutorial on animating data with PowerPoint

Speaker Info:

Anand is a co-founder of Gramener, a data science company. He is recognized as one of India's top data scientists. He leads a team that automates insights from data and narrates these as visual data stories.

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Past talks