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CALC Episode 2: The Average Day for a Statistician: It’s Not Mean!

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A Day in the Life of a Statistician…

Statistics isn’t traditionally known to be a trendy subject, but data and data analytics is fast becoming a main driving force around the world for many industries and organizations. In the pharmaceutical industry, the visibility of statisticians is increasing and we are highly influential in the decision-making process.

Now that’s a lot of power we hold, so let’s put it to good use!

What’s covered in Episode 2?

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Network meta-analyses: why, what, and how

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Interview with Georgia Salanti

Do you know why network meta-analyses (NMA) important?
Do you wonder what steps are included in NMAs?

Network meta-analysis is a very important field, especially for multiple treatment options where a direct comparison is impossible without using this systematic review and analysis.

In today’s episode, I discuss with Georgia the following:

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How to resolve conflict without giving in

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Webinar with Gary

Do you really know how to deal with conflict?

Conflict is one of the biggest topics of stress at work. Managing conflict gives a huge drive to our success and satisfaction at work, but in reality, it’s tough to manage it.

Today, we give you the recording of a webinar with Gary on how to effectively resolve conflict without giving in and you’ll learn about these points:

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CALC Episode 1: From Molecule to Patient: The Statistician’s Role in Developing New Medicines

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The Drug Development Process

How do we develop new medicines to treat nasty and debilitating diseases? 

It all starts by discovering a novel target molecule in the lab. Fast forward 12 years and an average expenditure of 1.5 billion dollars we hopefully get the thumbs up from health authority bodies to license the medicine for public use.

So we skipped a lot of important steps there.  The journey for developing new medicines is extremely lengthy and complicated.  Fortunately, you can listen to this podcast and learn about all the important stuff relevant to statisticians in just 20 minutes!

As statisticians we contribute to all aspects of drug development. Having knowledge of the process from start to finish is important, as it will help you understand why statistics is an essential and relied upon toolkit in this industry.

Specifically, we’ll talk about…

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Current trends in pharmaceutical and how they will affect you as a statistician

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Interview with Richard Zink

What bigger trends do we see in the biopharmaceutical industry, which will have an impact for statisticians?
. . . in terms of technology changes?
. . . in terms of regulatory changes?
. . . in terms of political/society changes?
What can statisticians do to prepare for these changes?

In this discussion with the current ASA biopharm chair – Richard Zink – we’re covering a wide range of topics:

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Natural language processing – how the analyses of unstructured text data can help us

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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:

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The podcast is run in association with PSI