Innovation

Current trends in data science for pharma – findings from a qualitative survey and what we should do about it!

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-02-19 0

Interview with Ursula Garczarek

Do you want to learn where the health sector might be heading in terms of data science?

Do you understand the opportunities and barriers in terms of the application of data science?

Are you prepared to learn the individual skills needed for these changes?

Then this interview with Ursula from Cytel provides you with the relevant answers. We are talking about:

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What is TransCelerate and how it will impact your work tremendously

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-02-05 0

Do you know that TransCelerate does for statisticians?
Do you write study protocols, analysis plans and programming specifications as individual documents noting, that there’s lots of redundancy?
Do you wonder, if there’s a more efficient was in-line with what regulators want?

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The rise of R and what role the AIMS SIG plays in it

By alexanderhschacht on 2019-01-29 0

Do you think, R can’t be used for regulatory submissions?
Are you forced to use SAS but would like to use R instead?
Would you like to understand how you can make R submission proof?

Then this interview with Lyn Tailor and Craig McIlloney helps you. Both work on the PSI special interest group Application and Implementation of Methodologies in Statistics (AIMS) on this topics.

Furthermore, we cover the following topics:

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Best of the episodes from 2018 and outlook for 2019

By alexanderhschacht on 2018-12-25 0

Happy Christmas! This episode is the last one in 2018 and we will distil the best of the last 40 episodes for you in this Christmas edition of the podcast.

It has been anamazing journey and we will talk about the challenges and the learnings as well as the achievements of the podcast itself. Thus, you’ll get a behind the scenes look into the podcasting work.

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The past, presence and future of estimands! Interview with Chrissie Fletcher and Mouna Akacha

By alexanderhschacht on 2018-12-11 0

If you ask someone within the pharma world of statisticians on what is the hottest topic, you most likely will just get: Estimands!

Many scientific events, conference sessions, publications and presentations are organized around this topic. Thus, I’m super happy, that we have Mouna and Chrissie on the podcast as they have presented about this topic at various occasions.

In this episode, you will learn about

the importance of the concept itself and it’s implications
the terminology of the estimand framework
and how it relates to missing data terminology

The episode covers the following questions and gives some examples on the different parts of the framework:

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How to make the right portfolio decisions – Interview with Andreas Sashegyi

By alexanderhschacht on 2018-11-06 0

We’re all making decisions to optimize our studies. Optimizing project plans across different studies presents further challenges. But how to increase the overall portfolio of a company given its limitations leads yet another set of challenges. Knowing how decisions are taken at this top level helps to understand the bigger picture and why this sometimes implies sub-optimal decisions on a study or compound level.

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