Any kind of opinion (meaningful opinion included) needs at least an object to talk about. In this case - a data.

In presentation, it’s best for us to include some data to support our argument or opinion. Well, this case is not a one-way traffic - data supports our opinion, but sometimes our opinion supports data too. These things can synchronize each other - with one exception, our opinion must not be an ordinary one, it must be a meaningful kind of opinion.

Meaningful opinion can support data because it can do three things: First, they can make people laugh. Second, they can remind people about something inside the data. Third, it can help people understand the data. Meaningful opinion is a kind of opinion which makes people feel regretful when they didn’t hear it.

Now you know something about meaningful opinion, right? Now let’s see how to make it.

1. Look in Different Point of View

People often ignore data because they look at it with the same point of view again and again for similar kind of data; you can prove them something here.

Imagine that you’re showing a graphic about constant raise of income of a company. Yeah, lots of people will look at your graphic in an ordinary point of view - they will see it and say “wow, this company’s income will rise again!”.

My advice for you is to look at a different point of view - when you think that the company’s income may drastically go down for the next few months. You must remind people of that. You can speak your opinion with another graphic of another company few years ago, when their income drastically drown after a constant raise.

2. Do One of This when You’re at The End or Do Both

There are two things you can do to end a data show: make analogical opinion, or conclude the data with a quote.

When you’re finish showing a data in your presentation slide, please think about this:
- Do people understand the data?
- What can I do to make this data remarkable?

a. Making Analogical Opinion
To make people understand the data you’re showing, you can make analogical opinion. For example, when you’re showing that a company’s constant raise of income may go down constantly, you can make an analogy like this “well, we’re in a good shape right now; but please do remember that we can also go down constantly and drastically. So maybe 6 months from now, we’ll see mount Everest-shaped graphic in my slide”.

b. Concluding The Data with Quote
Concluding a data with quote will make it more remarkable - as long as the quote is remarkable enough too. A meaningful quote, which can make people think about it for days is a good piece of words to conclude a data.

For example, when you’re explaining the same thing (like above), you can conclude the data with “well, when you’re hiking in a slippery mountain like this company’s competition, please be cautious, you can get slipped and we don’t know how bad it is”.

Well, that’s all from me now. I will meet you later.

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