"While the process of analyzing data is important, it is critical that the results of the analysis be useful to the stakeholders here at Microsoft. It is important to understand what the stakeholder's objectives are when deciding how to present my results. One method I've found to be effective is to add graphs, pictures, and illustrations to my presentations and reports. Once, when presenting an analysis of customer usage trends for a product our organization sold, I incorporated images of the product and animated them to expand in size in relation to the growth in customer adoption, adding the statistics and actual growth numbers. The audience remarked about how clear this made the information."