Archives for April 2018

Tips and tricks to reduce your email burden including the last resort option

By Alexander on 2018-04-24 0

Everybody uses email multiple times during the day and email represents a key communication channel. Managing the flood of emails effectively, will reduce your stress.

In this episode, we discuss various approaches, that we learned over the years from different productivity experts. We discuss how we implement them in our daily routines.

By listening to this episode, you’ll learn about these topics:

What are helpful mindsets about emails
Five step approach to managing emails
Good habits to establish like
Reply in a timely manner
Send and respond less to receive less.
Tips on how to set up filters
Smartphone vs desktop email checking
When and when not to work on emails
And the option of last resort

Is data science something for you? Interview with Cytel statisticians Yannis Jemiai and Rajat Mukherjee

By Alexander on 2018-04-17 0

Data science, big data, business analytics … these are all buzz words in the industry at the moment and the hopes are high on what these areas will provide to our industry.

Cytel organized a long session about data science for the PSI conference 2018 in Amsterdam (learn more and register here).

In this episode, we’ll speak about:

Why is data science such a hot topic at the moment?
How can we separate the different buzz words?
Is this only something for google, amazon and such companies?
What distinguishes a statistician from a data scientist?
What are the biggest areas of impact for data science?
What case studies are there, where data science had a profound impact?
Which problems you might face?
Which role do visualization approaches play in data science?
What’s the difference between “machine learning” and “deep learning”?
What would a statistician need to know, in order to compete in this field?
Where are good resources for this (see also the Cytel blog here)?

Finally, we will dive into the sessions, which Cytel chairs as the main sponsor of the PSI conference. You’ll learn if this session is a good fit for you.

About Yannis Jemiai

Yannis Jemiai has a pivotal role within Cytel, leading the company’s consulting and software business units, as well as the global marketing group. With Cytel Consulting he heads up an elite team of biostatisticians, skilled in applying the latest trial techniques and methods, to help our customers accelerate clinical development and mitigate portfolio risks.

Yannis also oversees the development of Cytel’s software product lines, including trial design packages East® and Compass®, and exact statistics applications StatXact® and LogXact®. Yannis guides global marketing efforts to raise the awareness of and uncover new opportunities for the company’s growing range of clinical research services and specialized software.

His own research has been published in numerous statistical journals. Dr. Jemiai earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University, an M.P.H. from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Molecular and Cellular Biology also from Harvard

About Rajat Mukherjee

Rajat Mukherjee has 15 years of professional experience as an industry and academic statistician, and brings a range of expert knowledge to Cytel’s customers. This includes work in pattern recognition problems for devices and biomarker discovery, Bayesian clinical trials, adaptive designs, and design and analysis of complex epidemiological studies. His experience and expertise also includes statistical computing, survival analysis, longitudinal analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric inference, as well as statistical classification and high-dimensional data. Rajat has a strong background and interest in the development and implementation of statistical methodology with application to real life medical problems.

Why should I get involved with PSI and what it’s like to run the PSI conference? Interview with Lucy Rowell

By Alexander on 2018-04-10 0

In this episode, we’ll cover Lucys story about her work within PSI and how it helped her to with her promotion. She shares tips and tricks to make it happen and we explore, what it takes to become an active PSI member.

Lucy is the conference chair for the PSI conference 2018 in Amsterdam. As such, we also talk about various hurdles and benefits of running such a large event. Lucy explains what you can expect from this years conference and how learnings from previous conferences are implemented. [Read more…] about Why should I get involved with PSI and what it’s like to run the PSI conference? Interview with Lucy Rowell

10 reasons for your supervisor to approve your attendance at the PSI conference

By Alexander on 2018-04-03 0

Are you afraid of asking your supervisor for approval to travel to Amsterdam to attend the PSI conference?

Do you need convincing arguments for them to approve your travel?

In this episode, we talk about arguments, that help you in your discussion with your supervisor. We’re talking specifically about the PSI conference 2018 in Amsterdam, but these points will very much be applicable for future PSI conferences as well. [Read more…] about 10 reasons for your supervisor to approve your attendance at the PSI conference