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Learnings from the COVID crisis for statisticians

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As statisticians, we are one of the most capable professionals to understand and to relay the right information to the general public about the most talked-about situation – the Corona Virus.

In today’s episode, I want to express what’s on my mind and on my heart about this topic. It’s a bit of an unusual episode, as I’m very passionate about the topic. You can agree or disagree with my thinking. Please let me know what you think about it.

I discuss my learnings, my reflection about this, and what it says about us as statisticians. I covering:

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Problems for statisticians to take on

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Interview with Stephen Pyke

Many statisticians stay in the statistics department for their entire career. But not Stephen Pyke. After climbing the corporate ladder in statistics very high at GSK, his career brought him to various parts of the pharma world – and his new job is a combination of lots of aspects – including statistics and data. 

Stephen shared some important learnings from his career during the PSI strategy day in 2019. In today’s episode, Stephen and I discuss the main points of his presentation and the take-away learnings for every statistician – even if you don’t work in a large pharma company. We specifically cover following questions:

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How and why to increase your external profile!

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Interview with Liz Cole

Do you know what your external profile is?

Do you know how to improve it?

In today’s episode, Liz Cole and I will dive deep into a topic called content marketing. It’s kind of meta, since this podcast itself originates on these ideas. Does this sound frightening or disturbing? It shouldn’t. 

Listen to our conversation and understand:

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Baseline testing – a widespread but difficult to treat disease

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I once reviewed tables for a randomized study and noticed several comments about testing the baseline characteristics. The commenters were arguing which test would be best to test for the differences between the 2 randomized groups at baseline.

This made me first angry about the wasted time and then curious about the reasons, statisticians still do this.

In today’s episode, Benjamin and I discuss some backgrounds for baseline testing in randomized studies. We also recommend these further readings:

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Are you up for a job change? Insights from a recruiter

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Interview with Jack Corbett

I recently changed my job and moving from one company to another comes with lots of uncertainty.

  • Will I pick the right one?
  • How can I make sure, that I actually get the job, that I want?
  • Will hiring companies find me and offer me jobs?

For any statistician a job change represent a major shift and occurs rather infrequent – hopefully. For a recruiter – this is day-to-day business.

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