The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI

As statisticians, we often need to bring terrible news to the team. We’re the first to know, that a study didn’t reach the primary endpoint, or that safety analyses showed some new signals, or that some analyses contained mistakes, that need to be corrected. How do you deal with such situations?

What are win-win situations for you? How to create such win-win situations? Upon observing on our daily business, however, we have the tendency to view situations not as win-win but rather as win-lose. Is it really possible to have such kind of situation?

Are you working long hours? How do you manage your time? Do you know how to say no? How do you manage expectations? We want to achieve our goals and be productive at the same time, i.e. we want to accomplish a lot of things during the day. But is it really effective to work long hours?

How do you create effective data visualization? How do you effectively understand and communicate your data? This episode helps you to explore different perspectives and approaches to create more effective visualizations. Andy and Eva from MakeoverMonday offer inspiration and a dose of perspective for those who communicate data.

"A core outcome set (COS) is an agreed standardised set of outcomes that should be measured and reported, as a minimum, in all clinical trials in specific areas of health or health care".

The Introduction to Industry Training (ITIT) gives the delegates a taste of life across the pharmaceutical industry from early drug discovery to marketing, from CRO to Big Pharma and across the UK and continental Europe. The course aims to show the delegates the breadth and depth of work that goes on the industry and give them ideas of where they can get involved. PSI organized this course into 6...

This is a very special episode. More than 2 years have passed since Benjamin and I started this podcast.

Do you know why is it so important to create a simple yet informative data visualization? How your design choices impact the visuals? How small details - like text alignment - influence the overall visualization? How gestalt principles guide you?

Are you stepping up as a statistician? Are you passionate enough in providing the value and helping society and the organization, and the people we serve?

The Corona Virus being discussed across the world, with all the visualizations there, it is really timely that I am speaking with Alberto Cairo. He is a visualization guru and has written the book "How Charts Lie". This book helps you as a statistician to understand various problems about charts, but more importantly, it helps you to educate your business partners that are not statisticians.

We all know how to specify a table and our processes support this. However, designing an awesome data visualization does not work this way. Our approach to table specification does not work?

As statisticians, we are one of the most capable professionals to understand and to relay the right information to the general public about the most talked-about situation - the Corona Virus. In today's episode, I want to express what's on my mind and on my heart about this topic. You can agree or disagree with this and let me know what you think about it. I also discussed my learnings, my reflect...

Are you curious about how working from home works? How can you know if this is for you? What are the advantages and disadvantages when working from home? What is a good set-up when having a home office? The COVID-19 outbreak forces many of us to work from home. But even before this, working from home became a growing trend, most especially at the moment. This interview will help you understand if...

Why is visualization so important? How do you determine the goal of visualization? What is the big difference between explanatory visualization and exploratory visualization?

Who is Florence Nightingale and what is impressive about her? Why would it be interesting to talk about her at the upcoming PSI conference? She’s famous for her visualization – what could statisticians today learn from her about visualization? Listen now to learn more!

After a career that brought you as a statistician to various parts of the pharma world, what is the new job, that you just took on about? What are the unique skills of statisticians - beyond just knowing about stats - compared to many other functions in the pharma world? Which problems do statisticians need to take care of beyond the current regular work? How can we make time to tackle these probl...

Do you effectively communicate complex data? How can visualization help you when you are . . . analyzing data? . . . reporting data? What initiatives and groups work on this topic and will help you?

Real world evidence (RWE) Big data Real world data (RWD) Pragmatic studies There are lots of buzzwords floating around and especially with the FDA having a bigger focus on RWE. Many teams in the different pharma organizations concentrate on this type of evidence.

Do you know what your external profile is? Do you have an idea of how to improve it? In today's episode, Liz Cole and I will dive deep into a topic called content marketing. It’s kind of meta, since this podcast itself originates on these ideas. Does this sound frightening or disturbing? It shouldn’t.

With so many recent advances in AI, it is important for statisticians to both keep up to date with the most recent methods and getting involved in guiding their application to the most pressing statistical challenges. In today's episode, Karim and I cover cutting edge examples of how data science and statistical sciences are intersecting. Learn from this episode why different approaches matter whe...

Do you feel you're working like a firefighter? Do you have the perception, you're solving the same problems over and over? Do you worry about ever-changing requests from your business partners? Then you are not alone - not even alone in the pharma world. In today's episode, we will talk about the data ops manifesto which addresses such problems. There are actually a couple of such manifestos out t...

6 effective leadership behaviours for statisticians One of my favourite leadership podcast run by Olaf Kapinski - unfortunately in German - had a great episode recently (see here for the link to the Leben-Führen podcast: https://leben-fuehren.de/5-wirksame-verhalten-fuer-fuehrungskraefte/?pk_campaign=podcast&pk_kwd=5-wirksame-verhalten-fuer-fuehrungskraefte) Today, we’re reflecting on the 5 behavi...

Can you really do a bigger role? Did you have a moment in your career, where you were thinking that you as a statistician is put in a box or labelled in such a way that limits your influence?

Only specialized statisticians discussed indirect comparisons in the past but over the years the topic developed into something, every statistician should know about. In this episode, Benjamin and I talk about the important reasons for using indirect comparison (IC).

During this episode, we will review some of the highlights from this year. It’ll help you to remember a couple of lessons learned or inspire you to listen to some episodes (again).