Are you curious about why and how I started The Effective Statistician?
What’s in it for you?
Why I’m passionate about it?
It all started when I became a new supervisor and had my first direct reports and I thought I really needed to learn about supervisory skills but I had very limited time. I found out that podcasts really help to learn while I commute to work – it’s effective.
In this podcast, you can learn a lot from the following:
Leadership
Presenting with impact: 7 mistakes to avoid
Interview with Julia Carter
Have you been sitting in boring presentations that made you start reading your emails?
Have you been listening to someone, wondering if this is for me?
Have you been getting away from a presentation and thinking 2 hours later: “what was this about?”
You’re surely don’t want your audience to feel this way, when you’re presenting yourself. You can’t be an effective statisticians without good presentation skills from my perspective. You will always need to present results, defend designs, or explain data.
Todays episode will give you insights into 7 mistakes of presentations. And honestly, I see at least one of them in nearly every presentation and I struggle with them as well – just listen to this episode and you’ll have a live example 😊.
[Read more…] about Presenting with impact: 7 mistakes to avoidHow to work effectively as and with a placement student – a success story with Katie and Claire
Have you ever considered to work with a placement student?
Do you consider to spend some time as a placement student yourself?
In this interview with Katie Thorn and Claire Brittain, we’re exploring factors, which help to make it a win for both sides. Both have worked very well together and share their stories. We step into questions such as:
[Read more…] about How to work effectively as and with a placement student – a success story with Katie and ClaireQuestions to ask yourself before starting a new project
I recently talked to a statistician, that initiated a small company internal group of statisticians to drive forward methodological innovation projects. While this surely will help the individuals to learn more about statistical methods, it was less clear, why and on which topics the group should focus their activities on.
While most of our day-to-day activities consists of running clinical studies, submissions and directly related work, we also engage in such innovation work streams or process improvement working groups and other such activities.
Today, we’re giving you advice on how to best pick the right projects to work on as you usually have some influence on this.
Specifically we cover the following questions, you should ask yourself first:
[Read more…] about Questions to ask yourself before starting a new projectHow to get most out of a conference
Interview with Kate Taylor – chair of the PSI conference in 2019
Hopefully, you’re attending statistical conferences to learn more about the latest developments in the field. But of course, there’s much more to conferences than just the sessions.
In this episode, I’m chatting with Kate Taylor – the chair of the PSI conference 2019 in London- about how to get most out of a conference. Of course, we take the upcoming PSI conference as an example.
In this episode, we talk about
[Read more…] about How to get most out of a conferenceData science or just statistics on non-medical data? A new horizon for statisticians
Interview with Stephen Ruberg
There’s a long tradition of statisticians working on clinical studies as well as other related data, e.g. pre-clinical data and observational data. In the advent of big data and data sciences, there’s a considerable pull from the business side of pharma to employ statistical approaches as well.
This leads to questions like:
[Read more…] about Data science or just statistics on non-medical data? A new horizon for statisticians