Telling Stories from Computational Notebooks: AI-Assisted Presentation Slides Creation for Presenting Data Science Work

TL;DR

This paper introduces NB2Slides, an AI system that automates the creation of presentation slides from computational notebooks, aiming to reduce the time and effort for data scientists while supporting human-AI collaboration.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel AI system, NB2Slides, that generates presentation slides from notebooks using deep learning and interactive visualization, addressing a gap in automation for presentation creation.

Findings

Participants believed NB2Slides improves efficiency.

Participants found it reduces complexity in slide creation.

Participants preferred human-AI collaboration over full automation.

Abstract

Creating presentation slides is a critical but time-consuming task for data scientists. While researchers have proposed many AI techniques to lift data scientists' burden on data preparation and model selection, few have targeted the presentation creation task. Based on the needs identified from a formative study, this paper presents NB2Slides, an AI system that facilitates users to compose presentations of their data science work. NB2Slides uses deep learning methods as well as example-based prompts to generate slides from computational notebooks, and take users' input (e.g., audience background) to structure the slides. NB2Slides also provides an interactive visualization that links the slides with the notebook to help users further edit the slides. A follow-up user evaluation with 12 data scientists shows that participants believed NB2Slides can improve efficiency and reduces the complexity of creating slides. Yet, participants questioned the future of full automation and suggested a human-AI collaboration paradigm.