Beamer Tips

Job market candidates! I know it's mid-July and you're perfecting your job market papers. But if you can't stand to look at Stata for another second and writer's block has made it impossible to revise that introduction (again), maybe you can start working on your slides. 

Have a look at Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's super useful tips for making excellent Beamer presentations! He even includes the code. I really like his idea of using TikZ to make figures for showing difference in differences timing (see page 45) of the slides. 

PowerPoint to Beamer, No Problem

Job market candidates use Beamer. It definitely looks nice. Also, as part of the audience, I really like to know how many slides and concepts remain. If there is a lot left, I leave my slightly irrelevant questions for after the talk. That said, PowerPoint is so easy! Especially when going back and forth with coauthors making changes. 

Solution: Jason Kirwin just blogged about a nice, easy way to convert PowerPoint slides to Beamer. Just click here.