Innovation

Interview with Jennings Xu

• Why is text mining so important?
• What are the typical challenges and research questions in this area?
• Are there any typical ones for medical/pharmaceutical research?
• What data sources could we tap into?
• What are some foundational concepts in the natural language process?

In this episode, I speak with Jennings Xu, who works as a Director at Quid – an AI natural language processing company. Beyond the questions above, we’ll address these topics:

Interview with Tricia Aanderud

What can you learn from Leonardo Da Vinci on how to put things into perspective?
Do you struggle with data communication?
How important is data visualization?

Storytelling is one of the great leadership skills that play a role in communication. Through stories, you can create alignment and you can influence others. It’s one piece of a puzzle to be an effective statistician.

In this episode, Benjamin and I speak with Tricia Aanderud, a very good data storyteller. Here’s what you can learn from the interview:

Interview with Shahrul and Anja

• Do you have great ideas but struggling to implement them?
• Is having an idea and just being right already good enough?
• What can you do to convince your supervisor?
• How can you help others understand your point of view?
• Do you have the right tools on how to make things work?

In this episode, I’m speaking with two members of The Effective Statistician Leadership program. One is coming from academia and one is from a large pharmaceutical company- they both have interesting and inspiring success stories for you.

Learn from them as we talk about:

• How to take action to improve your leadership skills
• How to help others understand your story
• How to refine things from other’s reaction
• What impact the improvements in your leadership skills can have on your lives

Listen to this episode now and be inspired to become a leader!

Interview with Ludi and Sam

• Do you have what it takes to be a leader?
• What skills can you learn from The Effective Statistician Leadership program?
• How can The Effective Statistician Leadership program help you become a better influencer?

In this interview, I’m speaking with two leadership students, Sam and Ludi, on what they have developed throughout The Effective Statistician Leadership program. You’ll learn a lot about how leadership helps you to achieve your goals at work and how it also helps you to increase your job satisfaction.

These are the points we have talked about:

• What they find most helpful about the program
• What skills they have improved on
• What they learned from based on the leadership assignments
• What they think about the mastermind concept
• What they learned about business acumen
• How the program helped them to have more influence at work

Listen now and be inspired to become a leader.

Do you actively kill your career without knowing it?

Do others not help you?
Are they making your life hard?
Is your company bad?
Does your compound suck and hinders your work productivity?

A lot of people complain about almost everything.
Statisticians tend to be more on the introvert side and there are discussions that introverts are more likely to have a victim mentality.

According to Jon Gordon, the key is to differentiate between some venting, that we need from time to time, from systemically and constantly complaining.

Take this Power of Positive Leadership Self-Assessment and complete the questions to know your Positivity Quotient Score. By knowing your score you will be able to establish a baseline for growth. You’ll also receive Jon Gordon’s 6 Quick Tips to Help Stop Negativity in It’s Tracks.

You can also find out how negative your attitude has gotten and what you should do about it by taking this quiz: Are you a complainer?

In this episode, Benjamin and I will discuss the following:

Interview with Frank Konietschke

Frank has something in common with Benjamin and myself – we all studied statistics in Göttingen and learned and researched in non-parametric statistics. Afterwards, we went into different paths. Whereas Benjamin started at a CRO and I joined large pharma organizations, Frank continued on the academic track.

He recently became Professor at the famous Charitee in Berlin, where he’s still dedicating a lot of research to the field of non-parametric statistics. However, he’s not an ivory tower researcher but also applies these approaches in the medical research he’s taking part in. 

Learn about a whole universe of different approaches, which will help you overcome many limitations of the methods, which you’re using daily.