I feel like slides should almost act like a prompt to me (the speaker) as opposed to presenting critical information. I am also a feverish believer that throwin

I feel like slides should almost act like a prompt to me (the speaker) as opposed to presenting critical information. I am also a feverish believer that throwing out a huge amount of technical content in a presentation is (often, though obviously not always) pointless. Unless you're speaking to a very specific audience, numbers should be presented in a graphical form which makes it easy to get the gist in a single glance. This is just my experience, and admittedly is largely limited to the academic world, but when someone stands up and has a table with five columns, five rows, and numbers to eight significant figures I immediately switch off!