Perspectives Engine

Adding relatable references for large numerical values

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In the news | Fast Company

A tool called PowerPoint Designer analyzes images and words to automatically suggest a handful of visually pleasing layouts—and even turn text into complex timelines—in an attempt to turn everyone into a PowerPoint ace.

In the news | Digital Trends

Microsoft is leaning in on the power of artificial intelligence to help Office 365 subscribers create beautiful PowerPoint slides. By dragging and dropping in your favorite images and the relevant text to a slide, PowerPoint Designer leverages A.I. to automatically…

In the news | VentureBeat

The world’s most popular presentation program — PowerPoint — is becoming more capable this week, courtesy of AI.

In the news | MSPowerUser

A few years ago, Microsoft announced a AI feature in PowerPoint called Designer that will help users in creating better presentations. Microsoft today announced that 1 billion slides were created with Designer since launch. To celebrate this major milestone, Microsoft…

In the news | Nautilus

Dan Goldstein, principal researcher, and Jake Hofman, senior researcher, have been running experiments to see what kinds of contextual clues help people grasp the meaning of large quantities like distances, dollar amounts, population sizes, and more.

In the news | The Wall Street Journal

Microsoft researchers have developed templates that use ratios, ranks, and unit changes to make large numbers easier to understand; a method that helps inform Bing search results.

In the news | The Wall Street Journal

Microsoft researchers have shown that numbers become much easier to grasp — and remember — when the words “to put this in perspective” are coupled with a familiar reference.