Episode 0: About us and „The Effective Statistician “

Welcome to “The Effective Statistician”. The podcast for statisticians who want to have a bigger impact. This podcast is sponsored by PSI.

Alexander Schacht and Benjamin Piske co-host this podcast.

In our episode 0 we will speak today about the content of this podcast. We discuss

• who we are,


• who is our target audience,


• hat we will cover, i.e. what you will get from this podcast,


• and how the format will be.

Who are we?

Alexander:

• academic and industry experience (within the sponsor)


• phase III and IV (RCT, observational studies, regulatory submissions, HTA submission, commercialization work)


• different medical areas


• interest in many different areas methodologically


• group leader


• changing environment from office based to working virtually


• working from Germany


• PSI involvement (benefit-risk special interest group, scientific committee member, getting more involved in communications)


• husband and father of 3 kids


• love running and listening to podcasts

I will mainly drive this podcast and will chat with Benjamin around various topics for the first season of this podcast

Benjamin:
- 14 years of industry experience (within CRO)
- originally started in phase IIIb/IV (interventional and NIS, commercialization work, publication /presentation support, investigator driven trials)
- by now also experiences in phase II and III
- variety of therapeutic areas (mainly oncology, hematology and neurology)
- manager for 9 years now
- working primarily office based in Berlin, Germany
- husband and father of 4 kids

Who is this podcast intended to help?

• Statisticians


• Experienced and junior


• With and without administrative leadership positions


• Mainly in the health sector


• Statisticians / data scientists outside will benefit surely as well

What will be the topics of the podcast:

• Goal is to become more effective at work


• Build competency in terms of doing better statistics


• Ongoing methodological discussions


• Becoming a leader without a title


• Influence without authority


• Build your brand


• Get the right things done effectively


• Collaborate effectively within and across companies/organizations

What will we not cover:

• Advanced programming skills


• Pure news

Format of the podcast:

• Weekly show


• About 20-30 minutes


• Co-hosting


• Interviews


• Maybe single episodes as well