  Creating presentation slides is a critical but time-consuming task for data
scientists. While researchers have proposed many AI techniques to lift data
scientists' burden on data preparation and model selection, few have targeted
the presentation creation task. Based on the needs identified from a formative
study, this paper presents NB2Slides, an AI system that facilitates users to
compose presentations of their data science work. NB2Slides uses deep learning
methods as well as example-based prompts to generate slides from computational
notebooks, and take users' input (e.g., audience background) to structure the
slides. NB2Slides also provides an interactive visualization that links the
slides with the notebook to help users further edit the slides. A follow-up
user evaluation with 12 data scientists shows that participants believed
NB2Slides can improve efficiency and reduces the complexity of creating slides.
Yet, participants questioned the future of full automation and suggested a
human-AI collaboration paradigm.
