Building An Excel Based Automatic Corporate Nonsense Presentation Generator

Zhijing Eu
2 min readJul 26, 2020

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If you work for a large organisation, you may have come across (or maybe even authored?) presentations that are bloated with corporate buzz words that seem to make absolutely no sense.

https://youtu.be/WDOKCwnGT70

As a bit of a tongue in cheek move, I made an Excel file with a few simple macros that allows you to put together a presentation that you can then PDF print and share with your fellow colleagues.

Download and try it out for yourself here

Due credit to these two websites below for supplying the source for the random phrases I then modified slightly and used in the excel file.

On a final note — I will not be held for any damage done to your company in the event that you use this and your higher up-s actually nod their heads , clap in astonishment and say “that’s exactly what we were thinking too !”

PS: Essentially for those of you who want something more complicated than just joining up randomly paired phrases in a grammatically correct way, you may be interested in the “Machine Learning” equivalent.

Open AI has created a number of language models called Generative Pretrained Transformers that are Neural Nets that have been trained on a shit-ton of text from the web.

Here’s a good overview that dives into how it works

However if you are only interested in seeing it in action , this site may work better

https://transformer.huggingface.co/

For example, if I entered the start of this very same article here’s how it completes the rest of the sentence

(hiding their identities…LOL)

#ExcelVBA

#Corporatebullcrap

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Zhijing Eu
Zhijing Eu

Written by Zhijing Eu

Hi ! I’m “Z”. I am big on sci-fi, tech and digital trends.

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