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Working long hours – is it worth it?

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Interview with Ian Ratcliffe – IQVIA

Are you working long hours?
How do you manage your time?
Do you know how to say no?
How do you manage expectations?

We want to achieve our goals and be productive at the same time, i.e. we want to accomplish a lot of things during the day. But is it really effective to work long hours?

In today’s episode, Ian and I discuss working long hours – it’s advantages and disadvantages. We talk about these important points:

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MakeoverMonday – Improving How We Visualise and Analyze Data

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Interview with Eva Murray and Andy Kriebel

How do you create impactful data visualization?
How do you effectively understand and communicate your data?

This episode helps you to explore different perspectives and approaches to create more effective visualizations. Andy and Eva from MakeoverMonday offer inspiration and a dose of perspective for those who communicate data.

Today, I talk with these two awesome visualization experts – Eva and Andy. They have written great content about data analysis and visualization on their blog and of course in their book. We discuss the following important points:

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Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials – COMET

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An interview with Paula Willamson and Liz Gargon

“A core outcome set (COS) is an agreed standardised set of outcomes that should be measured and reported, as a minimum, in all clinical trials in specific areas of health or health care.”

This clarifies directly what the COMET initiative is about. But it also leaves open a lot of questions such as:

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ITIT – an acronym helping you get started in the pharma industry

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Interview with Alex Godwood and Gabriel Glencross

The Introduction to Industry Training (ITIT) gives the delegates a taste of life across the pharmaceutical industry from early drug discovery to marketing, from CRO to Big Pharma and across the UK and continental Europe. The course aims to show the delegates the breadth and depth of work that goes on the industry and give them ideas of where they can get involved. PSI organized this course into 6 two-day sessions, each covering a stage of drug development and each hosted at a different company. The host company will give their unique perspective from experts in the field. 

In this podcast, we talk about the following 9 important points:

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Why and how to declutter and simplify your data visualization

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Episode 3

Do you know why is it so important to create a simple yet informative data visualization?
How your design choices impact the visuals?
How small details – like text alignment – influence the overall visualization?
How gestalt principles guide you?

In episode 3 of this mini-series, I discuss the impact of simplified data visualization and how to achieve it. Specifically, I address these factors that affect your visualization:

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The podcast is run in association with PSI