🎓 Automated Presentations: From Papers to PowerPoint

This tutorial shows how to use OpenCode to create a PowerPoint presentation from a scientific paper.

What you’ll learn

• How to summarize scientific papers into presentations
• How to include figures and key takeaways
• How to format slides for journal club

Steps

You can run this in Plan mode to optimise the output. Here is a prompt for the paper Integration of variant annotations using deep set networks boosts rare variant association testing:

Make me 5-10 slide presentation for Journal club for this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-024-01919-z
* Keep word usage low
* Include main figures
* summarise key take aways from paper
* output it as a powerpoint

Results

Here’s what it made: DeepRVAT_JournalClub.pptx

Example slide:

Observations

The formatting is a bit funky and it is not too in-depth.

Challenge

What changes in the prompt or in Plan mode would you add to make a better output?

Some ideas:

• Ask for specific slide templates or layouts
• Request speaker notes for each slide
• Specify the audience level (beginner, advanced, etc.)
• Ask for a consistent color scheme or theme
• Request more detailed figure annotations