Leadership

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

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:

It’s surely not the norm, that a statistician from the pharma sector ends up working for BBC. But Robert Cuffe has taken this step and needs to explain statistics to non-statisticians on a daily basis.

In this episode, he shares the different methods he’s using. We also dive into common pitfalls, that we as statisticians trap into.

Finally, we also learn, how we can improve our publications to make sure, that the science is reported correctly in the broader news