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
5 steps to present successfully to upper management about complex stats (and everything else)!
Listen to this episode and learn about the 5 steps to present successfully to your upper management:
- Determine your goal
- Think about your audience
- Start with the conclusion
- Be simple but accurate
- Have …
Do you want to think and act more strategically?
Thus, I'm thrilled to talk with Swarna Khare about this topic. Swarna is a long-term listener of the effective statistician and today, it is a great opportunity for her to shar…
How to best visualize uncertainty
Interestingly, the visualization of uncertainty - one of the primary forms we use to communicate it - is a rather unknown field. In this episode, I'm very excited to spea…
What you should know about change management
So today, I'm glad I have a great colleague with me who is an expert on change management and has helped me a lot to drive changes within a big organization.
Listen to …
Knowledge sharing and what it means for you
We also discuss about the following points:
- What is the role of industry organisations in sharing knowledge?
- What tools, platforms &/or other approaches can enhance knowle…
2 learnings from 150 episodes and an Important announcement
In this episode, let's dive in the 2 learnings I had:
- How marketing helps me in my job
- Communication skills
- Telling stories
- Listening to the needs
- Selling and influencing
- Change management
- How having per…
Good data visualization checklist
I'm reviewing the first page of the awesome Novartis cheat sheet on data visualization.
Click here to get your download of the sheet!
Given that this is especially helpful in a visual wa…
Good data visualization checklist
I'm reviewing the first page of the awesome Novartis cheat sheet on data visualization.
Click here to get your download of the sheet!
Given that this is especially helpful in a visual wa…
A deep dive into principal stratification and causal inference
In this episode, I talk with 2 experts from Novartis and Roche. We cover the following questions:
- What is Principal Stratification?
- How would you d…
The benefit-risk tolerability measure - a new way to reach insights into benefit-risk and more
As part of his master thesis, he worked on an idea; I had sketched out a couple of years ago but never had the time to fully think through. I wanted to explore how we co…
What we can learn from Taylor Swift about creating data visualizations
Join us in today's episode as we are talking about the following points:
| Lyric | Answer | Question |
| "Cherry lips, crystal skies I could show you incredible things." | Taylor… |
How to improve your work by applying the principles of design thinking
In this episode, Victoria and I talk about the following points:
- What is design thinking?
- Why is it important?
- What are the different aspects of design thinking?
- What…
How to convince someone you have never met before
Very tricky situation!
In this episode, I will show you through this example how you can get what you need and have the other person feel good about it.
Does this sound like manipulation? No, thi…
What statisticians can learn from “The Art of Action”
In this episode, you will take a lot of learnings for your everyday life. Specifically, we also discuss the following:
- How did the Romans and French organize their mi…
How understanding the bigger picture boosts your career
In today's episode, I am sharing about my experience I had earlier in my career when I was working on a lot of different publications with different physicians who were responsible with these studies…
Getting to YES: Negotiation skills for everyday
You will see from our discussion the AHA moments Stuart had by reading this book and the important points I've learned. Here are a few, we dive in more deeply:
- …
Feeling overwhelmed? Learn the best tricks and the real big levers
It seems to be the curse of our time. Being busy. Being overwhelmed. Not reaching our goals. Feeling bad about working too long and not spending enough time with our loved ones or for other relevant …
Innovation, play and failing
Mike and I discuss innovation and the different factors that affect it. We specifally mention the following points:
- Time is equally valuable
- Make time to play
- Be curiou…
10 reasons for career failure and what you can do about it
Here are some major causes of failure:
- Lack of Ambition to Aim Above Mediocrity
- Setting exciting goals, thinking bigger
- Lack of Self-Discipline
- Know what motivates you
- Ill Health
- Sleep, exercise an…
4 steps to engage successfully with senior stakeholders and committees
- Anticipate
- Be clear on your goals
- Where is the stakeholder now
- Prepare slides and review these from the audience perspective
- Create potentially a pre-read
- Activate
- Set the expectations for the meeting
- Crea…