Innovation

Interview with Emma and Matt Jones

Were there times when you thought about creating something bigger than what you had?
Are you equipped and confident enough to implement strategies and plans for future service enhancement?

If your answer is yes, I am sure that you’ll be very interested to hear the story of Matthew and Emma as they will share today their experience on how they started their own company, Veramed, in 2012 after leaving their established careers working in the industry for large pharma and CROs.

We also talk about the following points:

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:

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:

Bonus Episode 2 – COVID

What do we need to do as statisticians in this crisis?
Why do we see hardly any people on the news explaining the numbers correctly?

I was asked about what we need to do to be more visible as a function? I talked about many problems in last week’s episode and that triggered some discussions about statisticians and leadership on LinkedIn.

Thus, today, I’m speaking about “Running on 2 legs – my call to action for statisticians to step-up in this COVID pandemic.” Here are some points I’m reflecting about: