The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

Interview with David Hand In this episode we focus on how you can grow in your effectiveness as scientists and leaders.  With that in mind, we like to dive into this concept of Dark Data and how, where, when, why this impacts decision making in the pharmaceutical industry. How dark data is an issue in the area of healthcare, particularly pharmaceutical R&D, clinical trials, manufacturing, marketing, and health technology assessments?What's the taxonomy of dark data?Where might statisticians/data scientists have their own “blind spots” related to dark data?From the standpoint of “effectiveness”, what is Davids advice to statisticians when it comes to this matter of Dark Data? Reference: Dark Data Listen to this amazing episode and share it with your friends and colleagues! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hand_(statistician)  https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.j.hand  CV:  https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/d.j.hand/cv/CV%20for%20Imperial%20website%2020200222.rtf

Interview with Irene de la Torre Arenas We talk about the following interesting points: Who is your audience? Will they understand it?Is it accessible e.g to color blind people?What is your message?Use chartsCurating informationInclude aggregated dataUse a specific person as an exampleData transparency to build trustEngaging data visualizations Irene de la Torre Arenas She is a data designer specialized in visualizing information in understandable and meaningful ways. She works as a Visualization Lead at UCB since February 2021. Before her current role, she worked at BBC News, where she was part of the UX&Design and the Data Journalism teams, and at the MIT SENSEable City Lab. She has also collaborated with other media and advertising organizations in Spain. In 2017, she gave Data Visualization classes at the MIT School of Architecture. One year later, she designed the didactic program Communicating with Data that MIT developed for the Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation. She graduated from the MFA Information Design and Visual Communication at Northeastern University. Her work has been recognized in the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards and the WAN-IFRA European Digital Media Award. Listen to this episode and share this with your friends and colleagues!

Today, I'll be sharing with you my learnings on how to ask for more money or for a promotion. Here are some important points: DO's Know the processUnderstand your market valueKnow your unique contributionOverdeliver expectations and add valueObserve what others do that you can't do - fill in the gapsRight timing DONT's Never bring in your personal situationBe unprepare to be challengedDon't ask for something the company doesn't provide or allow Good luck with your promotion! Share this episode with your friends and colleagues who might learn from this!

Strategy is a buzz word that is all around. Everybody talks about it but I didn't know what it is for a very long time. I recently read a nice book about this and in this episode, you'll gain knowledge about what I have learned from this book. What is a strategy? Diagnosis of the problem “What is going on here?”Strategic pillars - guiding policyTactical plan of coherent actions But there is a lot of bad strategy around: Fluff - just lots of buzz wordsFailure to face or define the challengeMistake goals for strategyBad strategic objectives in a sense of not addressing critical issues or are impracticable Book recommendations: Good strategy/bad strategyThe art of action  Listen to this episode and share this with your friends and colleagues!

In this episode, Benjamin and I share about how we did it our way and discuss the following points: What makes it very special? Great experts to work withExposure to senior managementIntense work experienceSecret project - not even allowed to tell where you go to How did it work for me? Deep dive into the dataMeeting with the other companyInterviews with the expertsLooking into further materialDiscussions with the other expertsConclusions and recommendations Listen to this episode and share this with your friends and colleagues!

Join Sam and I while we discuss our experience and tips we have learned from other statisticians. You will also learn about 7 Tips to Help You Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking. Start SmallPrepare ThoroughlyDon't Just Memorize the WordsAvoid Common BulletsReduce StressFind a Friend to Focus OnEngage the Audience Reference articles from Sam we talk about: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-much-does-fear-impact-your-life-sam-gardner/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/right-wrong-kinds-fear-sam-gardner/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/motives-fear-sam-gardner/ Reference article by Lolly Daskal: https://www.lollydaskal.com/leadership/what-to-do-when-you-are-afraid-of-your-leader/

Today, Sam and I talk about the 5 steps to teaching stats and other types of content which are the following: 5 Steps to teaching statistics well: The hookTell a storyTeaching pointsSummariseCall to action Reference: Stu McLaren Listen to this episode and share this with your friends and colleagues!

Interview with Lucy Setian Join Lucy and I while we discuss more of the following points: What is Manatee Mentor?Who is in your target audience?How do people find their mentees or mentors?What happens if you think your partner is not right for you?How do you interact with each other?How does it work with trading the time investment?How will the future look like for Manatee Mentor? Reference: https://www.manatee-mentor.com/ Listen to this episode and share this with your friends and colleagues!