 All right. Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to today's presentation using flowchart shapes for communication. And so it's Manikawahi here. And I just wanted to let everybody know this October, I'm holding these three events where I'm talking about PowerPoint, but it's not just any old PowerPoint. Okay, these three events I'm talking about is how to use PowerPoint to, like, do make these diagrams that I always make, these curation diagrams. And this is the first one, and I'm sorry I posted it late, so not a lot of you are going to show up probably, but I'm recording it, and I'm going to put it on YouTube. So if you're watching this on YouTube, welcome to. And if you're here, welcome. Thank you for showing up today. So what I'm going to talk to you about today, so I'm going to have three lectures in October, and this first one is going to be about flowchart shapes in PowerPoint. And the main reason why I wanted to hold this is I, when I was a little girl, my mom studied programming, like she was studying it, and she had these books at home, and she even had this template. I remember she had this template where you could make these flowchart shapes, and it said on the template what the shapes meant. So I just grew up thinking everybody knew what these shapes meant. But then I had a PhD student who was, who maybe she'll be on here, I don't know if she's on here, I'll say hi to her, but she is in computer science, like so she was like doing the real deal. And she made a diagram one day, and I just started giggling, and she's like, why are you laughing at my diagram? And I'm like, because you use the weirdest shapes, like these shapes aren't the right shapes to use. She's like, there's the right shapes, and I'm like, yeah. And I started noticing, you know, the other problem is if you don't know that these shapes are out there and they mean something, then you, it's like knowing a word, like if you don't know a word, you're not going to use it. So the fact that you know the shape exists means you know you can use it in a diagram. So that's one of the another thing that I wanted to say. Now, a lot of you, I don't know who's joining today, but if you make these diagrams already, you might use some sort of program for it, like Vizio is an old program that was used for this. Today's lecture in the three that I'm doing in October are on PowerPoint. Why? Well, first of all, everybody has PowerPoint. And most people by now sort of know how to use it. But a lot of people do not know how to use it for this use. And it's so simple to use PowerPoint, but it's not always easy to use it for this particularly use. So before I go on, let me advertise to you something free, which is awesome, right? I have been holding my workshops on application basics, and I'm holding a workshop. Well, it's like one workshop. It's a three day workshop, right? It's Monday, Wednesday and Friday, October 23, 25th and 27th this month. So that's a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If you want to go to the workshop, but you want to go on a weekend on November, I'm holding it on a weekend, okay? And I'll put it in the chat. Actually, that's what I'll do. Now, well, let me tell you what the workshop's about. What it's about is applications, like computer applications, like that, that student I told you I had, she's a computer scientist, she builds applications. The reason why I have a whole course in just like applications is because if you're a data scientist and you learned like bio statistics, like you came through like public health or something that's not business, then not only do you not know what these shapes mean, but you don't know a lot about what happens when people build applications. And the reason why you need to know is because we are data scientists and we are analyzing data that are coming out of applications. Like the last time I held the workshop, one of the applications that came up a lot was Epic, big EMR application, right? So you're probably, if you're in health analytics, you're probably going to get data out of Epic. How did Epic get built? How does it get there? How does it store its data? You're curious about all those things, what people do when they're application architect, you want to come to this free workshop. So it's a six plus hour workshop, but not all at once, right? So each session is about three hours, two to three hours, depending on how many people show up. And it's noon Eastern time. And there's three group sessions. And then there's one private wrap up session with me. And all your materials are online. There's a course online that it follows, but it's a workshop. Like the last people who, the last workshop I just did was really awesome. Everybody, you do these group challenges and it was, it was really cool. So if you just want to network, you know, come, come to the workshop and you'll, you'll meet some people who think like you, okay, back to our regularly scheduled program. So how, so if you're going to make a diagram, why are you making a diagram? Right? It's because words are failing you. You can't make a table. You can't explain it in that you need shapes. Like you need, you know, images. So flow charts have been used in engineering even before computers were invented. And so often what you're trying to diagram, especially in data science is a flow or some sort of process. And in engineering, they were always trying to do that. So they invented these shapes. And the shapes are connected by arrows defecting, depicting some sort of process flow. And I'm telling you in data science, it's super useful to have that because you're often doing like ETL, you know, extract, transform and load. You're often doing stuff with data, even if you're not moving it around, you're just like doing stuff with a variable. And it's very hard to explain it just like in words. And it's a lot easier sometimes to just make a diagram about it. And even the simplest workflows, I've made a diagram of them, and it helps everybody. Like I don't know what you do with the diagram, you just look at it while you're talking, but it helps like keep you unconfused because data is very confusing. And so that's why it's really important in data science. And so if you download these slides, what you get is you'll get a link to my data curation foundations course on LinkedIn learning, which is sort of like a foundational course for making these diagrams. In that course, I don't teach you PowerPoint, but I teach you kind of like how to make these diagrams or the tables or how to keep the documentation, how to do data curation, basically, that's what it's called. But what I'm talking about today is sort of from my online course, my online course is PowerPoint for Visualizations, I'll show it to you in a second, because we can use PowerPoint for data curation, but PowerPoint isn't always like easy to use because that actually one of the three lectures I'm going to give you is about the defaults in PowerPoint, like the manufacturer's defaults, you have to fight with them. And so often when you're doing data curation at PowerPoint, you need to reset the default. So you'll want to come to that one. But today I'm just going to talk to you about how to use the shapes, whether you're in PowerPoint or not, like what the shapes mean and how to use them. And I put two blog posts on the slide. One is how to make an ETL documentation pipeline. That just shows you how to make pipelines, right, like an ETL pipeline. It doesn't really talk about PowerPoint, but it gives you an idea of what I'm teaching you today, how you can apply it. And then I just posted this, shapes and images for DataVis, which kind of is a companion to this lecture here. It has a lot of the same information, but then you can read it. All right. So let's just go on here. I talk a lot. Oh, this is a screenshot of just the information in my PowerPoint for visualizations course. You'll see it costs $50, but you get it free if you join my mentoring program. It's part of the mentoring program. And also, if you want to join the course, just the whole course site, it's just $50 a month for a subscription to the whole course site. And I keep adding courses. In fact, this PowerPoint for visualizations is foundational course. I'll be adding some data curation courses, like that ETL pipeline blog post. I'll be adding courses like that. And you might want to take them. So this is what's in this course is all these things here. And those are the things I'm going to be lecturing about in the three events I have this this month. So one of the most important problems with PowerPoint is that it's old. And that means it has been around a long time, and they don't want to like, if there was a menu before, and then they reverse in PowerPoint, they don't want to take that menu away, because people are using it. So they, but let's say people don't can't find things. And this has been the problem with Microsoft is they have a lot of features, like I remember going to a Microsoft thing once. It was like some presentation. And they said, you know, we did the survey of all these people, like what features do you want added to PowerPoint? And all the features they wanted added, they were already in PowerPoint is just people didn't know where they were. So what they were saying at that lecture, and that lecture was in like 2007, they were saying, Oh, so we're adding more menus to try and make it so people can get to stuff. Well, I don't know what sort of research they did. I mean, it just makes me confused. And you'll see, even though I've used PowerPoint since the 90s, I still sometimes I just feel like I'm stuck because I want to go do something. And I, I mean, there's about 500 ways to do it, but I can't think of one way. You know, I mean, if that happens to you in PowerPoint or any program, don't feel bad. It's that's what's happened. So one of the things that I'm going to sort of show you, I've got some example slides I play with in the course is just how these things are arranged and how to get to them. That's mainly in my navigation events. But this one, you're going to see a little bit of it too. So let me just give you a crash course in these shapes. And then I'll demonstrate a little bit. Okay. And obviously, this is a PowerPoint presentation. So these shapes are in PowerPoint. So there's a few. So if you look up flow chart shapes, there's like hundreds and you'll be like, Oh, my God, I'm overwhelmed and I'm not an engineer. So why am I looking at this? I'm just going to like, like, kind of summarize the shapes I use all the time. Okay. And here's a little, little kind of funny thing about it is they're not all official flow chart shapes. Some of them are like shapes that are not flow chart shapes, but these are the ones I use all the time and data science. Okay. So the first one I use is the terminator. Okay. So see that hot dog shape, this shape right here. These are called terminators. They're where a process starts or in a process stops. And when I'm making this isn't colorful, I like to make colorful ones. I usually color the start green and the stop red. And I'm telling you, it's super useful to have these shapes, because if you get used to it, when you look at a diagram, if somebody shows you a diagram, the first thing you look for is these terminators to see where does this start and where does this stop? Like what is going on? Because remember, most of the time it's a process. Okay. And then the second thing is on the slide that I'm showing you is there's predefined and not predefined processes. So predefined process is this thing here with this parallel shape, and nonpredefined process is this one without it. So actually, let's look at this little baby workflow here. So we have start, which is intake. We're just pretending we're at a clinic. Okay. So the patient fills out the intake packet. Well, that's a predefined process, like the intake packet set up. And then we're supposed to do data entry. Okay. That's a predefined process. But schedule appointments is not really predefined. Like whoever's there, they just schedule them. And then intake is completed. So see this, so intake is completed, but obviously the person hasn't been treated yet. Right. So it's not like it's like there's other processes. Okay. And that's another thing I had to learn about making these diagrams is you can make a big diagram. Like here's how the patient gets treated. Then you can make a diagram about like certain products, like how this is how the patient, there's billing, like you can make a million of these. It all depends on what you care about. Like in this case, like I made this just for demonstration, but I took it from a real one I made. And the reason why I was making all of these is I went to a clinic with a colleague of mine who is actually one of my customers. And he said, Monica, my friend owns this clinic. And I'm a data scientist. And I want to be able to analyze data in this clinic. And I said, well, we have to do systems analysis first, and we have to make all these diagrams. And I was literally doing that. I was making diagrams of these work processes. So we could figure out like what data systems they had and where to get the data. Okay. So those are my first three shapes are my favorites. Here are other ones I care about. So you recognize Terminator. We just learned Terminator. So start and end. So immediately you can see how to look at these. Okay. So start, log into application, predefined process, right? Here, I love this decision. Okay. Now the way decision works is you only get yes or no. Now you can have a lot of things coming into this, right? But you only get one decision and yes or no. Now, see how it says are the data updated? Yes or no? Let's say there was more than one choice. Like are the data updated and current? Like not archived? I'm just making this up. Well, you can't do three choices. What you have to do is two sets of choices. Like are the data updated? No. Are the data archived? Yes, no. You know what I mean? Like under the no, you would have to put the next. So that's how you end up with a decision tree. So once when I was, I was doing a database, there were these clinicians and they were like, we can't enter and we have to choose a primary diagnosis to enter here. And Monica, we don't know which one because we all have different ones. Then I created a decision tree that's like, is the primary diagnosis Alzheimer's? And if the answer is yes, then enter that. And if the answer is no, is the primary diagnosis some other dimension? And if the answer was yes, enter that. If the answer was no, if the primary dose is also stroke, then the answer is yes. It's like kind of like that way I could get the most accurate of like what I was looking for. And so that's how you do serial decisions. But this is a simple, simple. So you log into the application. Are the data updated? If the answer is no, look at this. This is a manual process. So see manual data entry. That's what this trapezoid means. So manual processes are often needed in healthcare, data science, whatever, like in this case, this manual data entry. So something is manual, then I use that. And then so manual data entry goes here, if the data are updated, then you go, yes, here. And this is a really common thing that if something is not, not if the answer is no, you have to do something. And then you go back and it's fine. And if the answer is yes, it's fine. Then you see this diagram, it says run quarterly reports. Well, what's a report? It looks like a little report, right? You can have, this is run quarterly reports. So this is a repeat shape. But you can also have just one. Like if I'm making a document or training manual, something, I'll just put like one. Like I'll say, control the training manual. I'll just put one of these. But this is, they're two different shapes. Like this isn't me putting three on here. I think you could just pull three, or maybe I put three on there. Sometimes it depends on what program you're in, what full chart shapes they give you. But the ones I'm talking about here is usually the ones they like to give you. And then we have the end here. And again, this is just the end of this particular little process, right? So then, and then here's a few others that I use that I just love. Okay. So the first one on this, this is data. See this cam? I used to work with this consultant. She'd call it a garbage can. I thought that was so funny. Here we are running a data warehouse and now it's a garbage can. But anyway, that can means data. And it usually means like data in a database. But it can mean like a big amount of data like on a disk or something that you're giving to somebody. But what it's sort of funny about it is that's not a flow chart shape. And so it's a little hard to find in PowerPoint. It's not with the flow chart shapes. You won't see a data shape. Okay. But we are data scientists. And so we're always using that shape. So that's the data shape. Okay. So notice how this particular diagram doesn't have any terminators in it. And so you might say, okay, that's a little bit confusing. But sometimes you just don't have any terminators. Okay. So we'll start with the BRSS data warehouse and see how I don't have any terminators. And I make it very obvious where the start is. I put it up in the left here. So the first thing we do is we extract data for state equals 25. Well, look at this shape. Doesn't this look like an old fashioned data card? Those of you are as old as I am. This is what it means is data. This is the official shape for data. That's how old this stuff is. The shape for data is a data card. So what I use is I use this shape for data, this can for like a data warehouse. And this were just a little extract. See how I did that here? So we extracted and then here's a predefined process. You just learn that ETL into this data mart. So what I'm kind of demonstrating here is what if you had the behavioral risk factor surveillance system data, which is a health survey of the entire U.S. All right. And we let's say we live in Massachusetts because I do. And let's pretend that I was supposed to set up what's called a data mart, which is like a little baby database that's just for, it's like a little convenience store. It doesn't have all the BRFS. Just the Massachusetts stuff for convenience, I guess. So I'm going to set up my little data mart. What do you think I'm going to do? I'm going to take the data out here for state equals 25, this Massachusetts ETL into this data mart. This is just my imagination. I don't really have a data mart of BRFS Massachusetts data. But let's say I did. I definitely would not take all the columns. I would take the columns I wanted and then I would classify, you know, there'd be classifications like are they in a rural area or what counties are they in or whatever. So I would initiate classification macros and this is based on kind of real life. When you have a data warehouse, you end up doing a lot of this. And what I would end up doing, so see this thing? This is like a repeated process. It looks like a big Q kind of. I'd say run through 20 classification macros. And again, I say macros. I was probably doing this in SAS. And so that's another diagram, this repeat processes. That way I don't have to go through each macro or whatever. And then load into dashboard, predefined process. Now, see the CONT stands for continued. This is not a terminator. This is referred to another diagram. So when you run out of room on a diagram, you can just do this continued. But you might want to do like an A here and then like an A on that. If you have a big, try not to make big diagrams. I try not to make big ones. I try to just figure out what I'm trying to say and make it fit on the slide. And it's okay to say multiple things. Yeah. So basically, I try to make my diagram. And when I started making diagrams, I wasn't very good at it. I mean, I just made the diagrams for myself. And so I just kept making them bigger and rearranging it. And you're not really supposed to do things like this. It looks terrible. I should be aligning these things and everybody make fun of me. But it's better if you just kind of have to sit back and say, why am I making this diagram? What am I trying to sort out? Like this diagram that we're looking at right now, what I was probably trying to sort out was how we did these macros. Like where the macros fall in this whole big picture. Because people would see, oh my God, you have these 20 macros. Oh my God, I'm going to die. And I'm like, no, you're not going to die. They're well run. Everything's going to be okay. So here are some more. So these, I already talked to you about data. These are bonus shapes that are technically flowchart shapes. And I'll get to PowerPoint in a second. I'll show you what I mean by that because of the way they're arranged on the menus. So data or data set is this can shape. And then internet or network is this cloud shape. Okay. And sometimes you'll see on one of my diagrams, I use a zigzaggy cloud. You can use different cloud shapes and they don't always mean the internet. Sometimes they just mean a network. Like a network that's not a wired network. Usually it's like a cell phone network or something coming through the air. But remember, the purpose of these shapes is not so you pass engineering class. The purpose of these shapes is to communicate what you're thinking. So if you're not thinking internet or data or whatever, if you're thinking something else, you need a different shape. And then also we have callouts. And again, this cloud shape is not an official flowchart shape. And then we have these callout shapes. It's that the speech balloon thing. And those are not official flowchart shapes, but they're so useful. And you'll see I'll show you an example of it. And then we also have just icons or graphics. Now, you know, when you're trying to say represent a data set, you know, you might as well use this can shape. But if you're trying to represent like a video conference or an online discussion or whatever, why not use a graphic? Like it just says more, right? And maybe if you're trying to like make a dashboard, then you're going to, you know, maybe use just this icon that just says, that just has a dashboard, right? And so, so yeah, so your goal is always visual communication. And so, let me, if you take my PowerPoint for visualization course, that online course, you'll get these three slides to come with that come with it, just because it's easier to practice with PowerPoint if you already have some slides, right? So these are just three I made. And they're sort of based on loosely based on, you know, true stories. But as you can see here, you know, here, this already has some shapes on it. But let's go and figure out, well, where are those shapes? Like let's say I wanted to add a shape. What would I do? Well, usually when you start PowerPoint, PowerPoint, like I can talk, you're on this home. And so I just want you to look at like the menus for a second. So you're usually on home and how do you know you're on home? Well, that changes. Like in this new operating system that I'm using here, it's, and I'm in Windows, see how it's very hard to tell, you know, which one it is. It's just this, so I have to, like if I go to insert, everything changes. This is called the ribbon. And this is really hard on me. Like I, it's a lot of cognitive load. This UI is very difficult. This ribbon was not there until about 2007, you know, when I was going to that big launch that I told you I went to of Microsoft. And I really do not like this ribbon. Well, if you don't like the ribbon, you can go like this and the ribbon goes away. But the problem is the menu is still there and it's still sort of driving it. Okay. So if you're on home and you want to get to these shapes, if you happen to be on home, you have to be on home, then you can go over here and you get the shapes menu. All right. Now I'm just going to go through the shapes on you really quickly. This top one called recently should use shapes always throws me for a loop because there's different stuff on there. So I sort of ignore that because I just can't remember what's on there. I'm immediately going to bring you, make you go down here to these flowchart shapes. Now let me point out that actually the can shape is down here, but it wasn't technically, I think it isn't technically a flowchart shape. What's not down here is that cloud. That cloud is not there. And so I'm always looking for that cloud there. What is here is, oh, I was right. Here's your process and your predefined process. Here's your document and multiple documents. Here's that one data extract I was showing you. Here's that manual process. Here's change to the next page. Remember that one? Oh, this is also a tape. Like if for some reason a tape comes out, you know, like when you buy something at a convenience store at a data mart at a convenience store and they give you a receipt, you can use something like that. I've had to do that for like labels coming off. And then let's see here. And then here's that repeat one. But where is the cloud? So if you go up here to basic shapes, and I'm not really sure why they call this basic shapes. If you look, there's a cloud in here. There's also sun and a moon and stuff. And the reason why I'm bringing up there's a sun and a moon and stuff is you don't even know. Sometimes I use a heart. You're not really sure what you're going to exactly say on this. Like sometimes you're talking about like concepts like abstract concepts like love, right? So you might need the heart. So again, this is not engineering class. You're not trying to get an A. What you're trying to do is communicate. So if you need to use one of the other shapes, you think it's going to do a better job than full chart shape, definitely use that. Okay. So what we've gone over is the fact that you should go down here and look for a full chart shape. But if it's not there, there are basic shapes here. There's a lot of arrows. And if you actually take my course, you'll see that there's different arrows like this is a bendy arrow. As you can see it bends like these are, it's like this arrow right here. See this bendy arrow. And actually if I move this around, actually this is supposed to, if I make this connect, see how it connects. If I can move this around, right? And if I make this connect, see this is not a bendy arrow. So this is a good example of what happens if you have a non-bendy arrow and you start moving stuff around, right? So what should I do? Well, first of all, I should make this a bendy arrow, right? So I can click on it and delete it. Now I'm going to try to use the shapes. Okay. So here's, it says lines, but this is a bendy arrow. But then if you want arrow, block arrows, and that's, see, that's what I'm saying. That's why you have to take my course. Okay. So now I'm going to click on this and see it's the ugliest arrow in the world. But I'll teach you a bonus. If you go over to the home here, you'll see this thing. This is called the format pane. So I like the way this is formatted. So I'm going to click on it. Then I'm going to click on the format painter and I'm going to format paint this. Tada. Now it looks the same. So now that I changed into a bendy arrow, like, see how you couldn't see it before, but now it bends around. So that's good, but it's going to get me in trouble with the people in the IT department who's like, Monica, that looks terrible. Right? Okay. So let's say that we want to add a shape and we know what we're doing. Oh, I want to show you something here. Notice how when I clicked on the shape, this shape format thing came up here. Okay. And now let's say I want to format that shape, but I click somewhere else. Tada. It goes away. Oh my gosh, I go crazy. So let's say I don't like where this arrow is. I want to put it somewhere else. Well, if I'm not on it, I can't format it, right? So I click on it. So always click on whatever you want to format. Just make sure that it's clicked on. Okay. So now that it's clicked on, I could change it. I can go over here. Now, what do you think this is the most confusing thing in the world too? Like how do I want to change it? Right? And notice here on the shape format, you can insert shapes from over here. How about that? Right? And so already you're seeing, oh my God, this is so crazy. And then if you're like, I don't know what to do. I just don't know what to do. What I often do is I do right click and I just look at what's there. It often isn't what I want. Like this is format background or whatever. But if you right click, like if I right click on this, right click, I get a totally different menu. And so here I can do format shape, which I teach in the course of how to do format shape. And what's interesting is in this format shape, you saw me, like you actually saw me formatting this line a minute ago using that up here. Here is where I would format it here and look at how different this looks. So it's really confusing. But let's just say that we wanted to make a diagram, right? And we wanted to show something here. Let's make a new slide here. So what I would probably do is I would probably start with I go on the shape to go to the flow chart. And I do this terminator. And then I sort of decide like how do I want this to look, right? Like how am I presenting this thing? And so maybe I want it to be a very clean presentation. So I want the outside to be like black. But maybe I want there to be some sort of color coding. So I'll put like some red here. Now right here, I hate this palette, but you have to take the course to learn how to fix that. Or come to my next event on setting the defaults because I'll show you how to fix that. Okay. So then let's say we're going to start. We're going to say, I don't know, we'll just say start process. So already I don't even really like that font. And so I'm clicking on it. What do I do with the font? I've got shape format over here. And I don't even know what to do. But what you can do is you can go to home and then see shape format still there. And you can still use the home stuff. So if you get used to home, you can't. So there I started this. This is really bright. Let's change. Okay. Now I want to change the color of this. How do I do that? Well, I could go over to shape format, but I see this here. Like normally I don't even notice that. But now I'm noticing it and I'll just make it like orange. Okay. So let's say that I want the process to be like getting people like into a workshop or something, right? So I might be like, send out invitations. Like let's say we're going to send out invitations. Well, what's a good invitation? Well, this looks like invitations, right? Okay. So I'm going to see this is ugly. This is not what I want. So I'm going to click on this and go over here to the format painter and paint it like that. I don't know what color do we want? Let's make it blue. So we'll say send out invitations. Okay. And then let's see your two workshop. And then let's say we want to hold the workshop, right? Well, this looks like an online workshop, right? So why not then come over here and use this diagram to be like hold workshop. But then we need like some sort of like here I'm going to shapes and recently shapes is this text box. Okay. Is a text box a shape? Okay. So I don't even know. Hold workshop. Okay. And I haven't even made the lines yet. I have to make the arrow. So I showed you how to do it. But it's such a pain, right? Like because you end up, you know what, I'm going to just steal this one. I'm going to just do copy. And then I'm going to come over here and just do paste. I know it's really fat, but I like that fat arrow. So let's click it on here. Okay. And now I'm just copying paste and in control C. Now see you wanted to hold on here. Okay. So hold workshop. And then maybe I want to, I usually make a video of these, well, I wouldn't make a video of the workshop. I usually make a video of these events. And so let's say, let's just pretend I'm going to make a video of it. So what's a good shape for making a video? Or would you use a shape? Or would you go and find a picture? I don't know. I feel kind of lazy to go find a picture. And just to let you know where I'm getting my pictures, let's see here, is I use Pixabay and I linked to it in one of this. The reason why I use Pixabay is you can get like clip art and stuff that's good for this stuff. Okay. So anybody got an opinion about what shape I can use for a video? I'm too lazy to put in one. So let's, you know, and you can kind of make one like here, I'm going to make one, right? I'm going to make this like this. This is going to be like a movie, like an old fashioned movie. Okay. So you see how I'm doing this? It's going to be like this with a circle. I'll just put a circle. And now I don't even know where to put. Okay. So I'm going to go to, oh, here I can put the circle here. Okay. And now I think I'm just going to fill it in with black. See how I made this little movie projector? Okay. And then, but remember, it's all about visual communication. So if this doesn't look like a movie projector to whoever you're trying to communicate with, then that's a problem. Okay. And I'm saying make video and post. And so now copy paste. And again, you know, if there was a flowchart shape for make video or for video, I would have just used that. Like if I was making data, see, this is a problem because this looks terrible, right? And then you might have noticed that this, I don't think that the outline, I don't want a outline on here. There we go. And again, I'm going a little fast for you. But if you want to take the course or you want to come to my workshop, I'll show you all kinds of stuff there. And then of course, we've got, you know, we're making post video, then I guess we stop, right? So here make video and post, and then I'll say stop. I guess I got to put this up here if I'm going to do this. So this thing where I'm fussing around with everything is like what you do. You just sit and fuss around with everything until it's clear. Okay. Okay. So what I did was I used some standard shapes. And I use some shapes from the flowchart. But my whole point was to actually explain to you, you know, this process of inviting people, then holding it, then making a video and posting it. But like, let's, that's what I was trying to communicate. So let's say I was like, trying to hire somebody and said, Hey, I need you to help me with these workshops. This is what the process is. And they looked at it, they'd be like, Oh, okay, I get it. I get it. You have to hold it and then you do the workshop or whatever. And so, and so that's really the value of getting to know PowerPoint and getting to know how to fight with it and get it to produce shapes you want. Like I'm telling you, this looks terrible, right? But you don't have to, it doesn't have to look terrible. Like, like I, like here, I've learned how to do this thing. See, I'm using this shift. And I select these, I can go up to a range and align. And then they show you this diagram here and put a line middle. And that'll help with this whole ziggity ziggity thing. But you still have to play with it, right? So it's still a lot of work. So, so basically, that, that is my, my presentation for you today. If you come to my online course here, here, you'll learn all of this stuff. Like you'll, I'll teach you all of these things. All of these are like videos of me literally demonstrating what I was just demonstrating to you, only not doing it super fast, like doing it slow, so you can learn it. And so you can do it with me. And then here, you get a challenge where I say, okay, now you have to do blah, blah, blah. And let's see if you can do it. And so, so yeah, so you want to check that out if you want to get more into this data curation. That's why I'm posting these courses, because I haven't found anything on the web. And this was from what I'm showing you today is from a particular lesson in there that I, that is much more explicit than when I went over today. What I want to show you here is if you sign up for the workshop, this is this blog post actually has more information about the workshop. So again, in the application's basics workshop that I'm holding later, the reason why I made these events about PowerPoint this month before, you know, to try and get people interested in the workshop and come to the workshop is because I'm realizing everybody knows how to program, like I can teach you how to program in R and SAS and you probably can learn on your own. What the problem is, is communicating about programming. Like even today, somebody wrote to me on LinkedIn, and they had a question, they said, oh, my SAS macro is not running right. Here's my code. And I'm like, I can't really even tell what's going on in the code. I can't help you. But if that person had sent to me a diagram that says this is what my SAS macro is supposed to be doing, and I'm getting this error, oh my gosh, I might have been able to help them, even though we're like talking in LinkedIn. So that's what sort of I was realizing is these are the skills everybody needs so we can communicate with each other. And that's basically a lot of what happens in the workshop is I'm teaching you how to make these diagrams and how to explain applications to each other using diagrams, using metadata and using, you know, and I'm telling you the terminology for all of that. Like there's a set of terminology that we don't learn in healthcare that you need to know because just like with these flowcharts, they're concepts and we need to be empowered with the knowledge of what they are. So just to remind you, this is the application basics online workshop. It's three sessions. This month, they're going to be on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. They're each about two hours starting at noon Eastern time. And they're together and you'll network, you'll be able to talk to each other and stuff because each meeting we have a challenge, like I do some didactic stuff and then we have a challenge. And then you have a private wrap up session with me. And I give you online access to the course material. Here it is. And so this just shows you kind of like what's in the course. So on, Oh, hi, May. Hi. How are you? It's good to see you. I see you're just coming at the end. I'm recruiting everybody for the October dates. And you're welcome to sign up again. Hi, May came to our last one. And so on Monday, we'll be covering on Monday of the workshop, we'll be covering the this chapters one and two on Wednesday, we'll be covering chapter three. And on the Friday, we'll be covering chapter four. And so you can take a look at those. You can download slides here so you can get all these nice good links. All right. And then if anybody has any questions, I didn't see you guys throwing out any questions. I didn't really tell you to ask any questions. But if anybody has any questions, well, I guess you would probably ask them by now, right? But if you have questions later, just send me a message in LinkedIn. I'm trying to keep up with my LinkedIn. I'm sorry if I'm a little behind with you guys. But all right, well, thank you so much for showing up today. And I really appreciate you coming to my events and learning about PowerPoint and learning about better ways to communicate visually. And please consider coming to our workshop so I can see you again. Have a good week. If you're interested in joining the program, please sign up for a 30 minute Zoom interview using the link in the description.