The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI
The podcast from statisticians for statisticians to have a bigger impact at work. This podcast is set up in association with PSI - Promoting Statistical Insight. This podcast helps you to grow your leadership skills, learn about ongoing discussions in the scientific community, build you knowledge about the health sector and be more efficient at work. This podcast helps statisticians at all levels with and without management experience. It is targeted towards the health, but lots of topics will be important for the wider data scientists community.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 459
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Statistical Unicorns
Listen while Ena and I discuss how to improve one's career and how to make good choices that help you become more effective and have more impact at work.
- How Ena started
- …
Can introverts be good negotiators?
It is important to be an effective negotiator as negotiation is all around us all the time. Whether it's about daily life or making decisions at work as statisticians. …
Dark Data: Why what you don’t know matters
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, wh…
What can we learn from journalism
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 messag…
How to ask for more money or for a promotion
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 process
- Understand your market value
- Know your unique con…
Strategy - what is this and how can statisticians apply strategic thinking
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 knowled…
My experience as a statistician in a due diligence project
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 with
- Exposure to senior management
- Intense work…
Opportunities offered by doing a placement year in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry
Fighting the fear at work
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 Sma…
5 Steps to teaching statistics well
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 hook
- Tell a story
- Teaching points
- Summarise
- Call…
Mentor others to be mentored - Manatee Mentor
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 hap…
The Data Project
Listen while Loris, a man who views data through a human lens, and I talk about the following points:
- What do you understand by Data Management Programs?
- What is their v…
Posters, flyers, papers and how you can use QR codes to enhance them
Listen while we discuss the following points:
- Connection between paper world and digital world
- What is possible in the digital world
- Additional data
- Background…
Taking on leadership roles outside of statistics
Join us while we discuss the following points:
- What was her motivation for hiring people
- How did she broaden her scope of work for the company
- How did she face resi…
The analysis of adverse events done right - SAVVY
Join us while we dive deep into the following points:
- How do you solve the problem about varying follow-up times?
- What’s so special about the setup…
Why spend part of your career, as a pharmaceutical statistician in the non-clinical areas?
In this episode, Sam and I talk about the advantages of spending time in the non-clinical areas and other important points:
- Work on tremendous amount of variety with you can do with non-clinical st…
R vs SAS - which is the better tool in pharmaceutical research
Join us while we discuss about the following points:
- Our first experience with R versus SAS
- How long someone completely new learn R versus SAS?
- How easy is R versus SA…
Animations and movements - how to use them effectively with data visualization
Join us while Irene and I talk about how animations and movements can create a lot of advantages such as the following:
- Portray data directly through motion…
3 steps to be happier at work
Listen to this episode while we also I discuss this interesting book entitled Ich arbeite in einem Irrenhaus or I work in a mad house (in English) which can help us be happier at work.
- From feeling…