Month: January 2021

5 steps to present successfully to upper management about complex stats (and everything else)!

Should we oversimplify statistics, or should managers learn more about statistics? If you’ve been working as a statistician for a while, you know that you have to keep it simple if you want managers to understand you. Of course, I speak about those managers not being statisticians themselves. There are a lot of ways to explain …

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Do you want to think and act more strategically?

Interview with Swarna Khare Outside of statistics departments, we are often seen as tactical and operational implementers. This branding makes it hard for statisticians to be included in strategic discussions. This limits our ability to influence the organizations and projects. It can even lead to entire departments being outsourced or not appropriately funded because of …

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How to best visualize uncertainty

Interview with Paolo Eusebi Our job as statisticians focuses primarily on the analysis and communication of uncertainty in its many aspects. For this episode, I think of uncertainty as the variability in the population we are studying, the uncertainty around estimates, or the model uncertainty, which we might capture via looking into various models. Interestingly, …

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What you should know about change management

Interview with Beth Manning What is change management? Is it only something for big corporate initiatives or does it also apply to smaller changes?Why does it require so much consideration?What’s hard about change? Change management is something I never thought about being interesting for statisticians, but recently, I needed to dive in to this frequently. …

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