The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

Everybody uses email multiple times during the day and email represents a key communication channel. Managing the flood of emails effectively, will reduce your stress. In this episode, we discuss various approaches, that we learned over the years from different productivity experts. We discuss how we implement them in our daily routines. By listening to this episode, you’ll learn about these topic...

Data science, big data, business analytics … these are all buzz words in the industry at the moment and the hopes are high on what these areas will provide to our industry. Cytel organized a long session about data science for the PSI conference 2018 in Amsterdam (learn more and register here). In this episode, we’ll speak about: Why is data science such a hot topic at the moment? How can we separ...

In this episode, we’ll cover Lucys story about her work within PSI and how it helped her to with her promotion. She shares tips and tricks to make it happen and we explore, what it takes to become an active PSI member. Lucy is the conference chair for the PSI conference 2018 in Amsterdam. As such, we also talk about various hurdles and benefits of running such a large event. Lucy explains what you...

Are you afraid of asking your supervisor for approval to travel to Amsterdam to attend the PSI conference? Do you need convincing arguments for them to approve your travel? In this episode, we talk about arguments, that help you in your discussion with your supervisor. We're talking specifically about the PSI conference 2018 in Amsterdam, but these points will very much be applicable for future PS...

In this episode, we discuss our experiences in working with various programmers and what we as statisticians can do, to create an environment, where we can work without major disruptions and too many stressful moments. We’ll cover topics such as: How to increase mutual understanding How do delegate well The balance between specifications and workload Day to day activities to make life better

In this episode, we speak about one of the most important work relationships – the one with the physician. As a statistician we work with them in all kind of things on the job. They also might become great friends. In the episode, we will cover the following topics: Topics to increase the understanding where the physician is coming from such as How was he successful in his previous job – e.g. emer...

In our first episode, we talk about who is writing and talking here, if this podcast fits your needs and will help you, how the podcast will boost your career, and what our approach to podcasting is. Who is writing and talking here? We’re Alexander Schacht and Benjamin Piske. We create and edit the content, in addition to managing our work lives, home lives and being continuous learners. We invite...