The Effective Data Scientist

In this podcast episode, we discuss an important part of leadership – proactive behaviour. Or simply put—drive! As a statistician, your day-to-day approach to this topic will build up to long-term success. We discuss various aspects of the drive including:

In this episode, we’ll cover an amazing story by one of the best programmers and mentors I ever worked with - Shafi Chowdhury (www.shaficonsultancy.com). We’ll explore how it changed from being a freelance programmer only to building his company on the side. He had a great vision in mind, that drove him forward. You’ll also hear about his approach to teaching and mentoring – or in general helping people do their job better. His abundance mindset inspires me a lot. Shafi explains, why and how he made his own job redundant in his own company. Retention is a major cost driver and disrupts some companies a lot. You’ll learn how he manages to have nearly no turnover in his company and how is approach to recruiting and training new employees fits in to this. Further, we’ll cover how and why Shafi and his team regularly presenting at different conferences. We’ll especially go deeper on this presentation at the PSI conference in 2017 about an amazing tool to analyse and visualize data at the same time. His approach to delivering all this innovation is very unique. Finally, you’ll learn a lot about the leadership attitude that helped him grow his business fast into a medium-sized CRO with a very stable client base.

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Do you have a lot of email ping-pong, where emails go back and forth many times – too many times? Are you aware about the brand of you, that you communicate with your email style? Is email your default communication tool? Then this episode is for you. We have researched various articles on good email writing copies and distilled the best for you in this episode. By listening to this episode, you will learn about: When is email the best way to communicate? Approaches to attachments. How to take care of your style? How to structure your emails? About different email cultures Simple actionable tricks to improve your effectiveness directly

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.

In this episode, we share out ideas and experiences, which mindset sets up statisticians for success. We cover topics around:

In this episode, we share our ideas and experiences, which mindset sets up statisticians for success. Leading people Convincing business partners Delivering value and selling it–and what does selling mean Thinking outside the status quo to improve things in the long run Always learning about the business and the people in the business Learning about statistical innovation Doing things more effectively Becoming more impact-fully Raising your business acumen–internally and externally Having quality in mind Quote from the Episode by Bill Gates “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

Communicating data is so important! Quarto is a fantastic tool for writing reproducible reports using literate programming. Literate programming allows us to incorporate documentation and code in the same program. The data science community has embraced this idea by adopting Rmarkdown and Jupyter Notebooks. Using Quarto efficiently, you can create parametrized reports, write scientific publications, and build data-driven slides. Enjoy this super-interesting conversation with Thomas Neitmann, and be an effective data scientist!

In this episode, Paolo interviewed Thomas on why sharing your code with R packages for some data science projects is essential. When is it important? Where to start? What are the main steps and best practices? This skill could be a game-changer in your career as a data scientist, and nowadays, it’s much easier due to the introduction of new tools.

We have outstanding news for you! Thomas Neitmann joins The Effective Data Scientist as a co-host of the show! Thomas is an Associate Director of Data Science at Denali Therapeutics. He contributed significantly to the adoption of the R software in the pharmaceutical industry - especially during his time at Roche.

In this episode, we move from the logistic regression model to the proportional odds model, with emphasis on interpretation and the checking of assumptions (visually and analytically). We also speak about the opportunities and challenges of dealing with the dichotomization of ordinal or continuous variables.

Logistic regression is a beautiful tool for modeling a binary dependent variable, although many more complex extensions exist. In the show, we will speak about the generalized linear model family, logit and probit functions, interpretations, and practicalities.

Creating reproducible research is crucial for data scientists as it ensures transparency, understanding, and accuracy in the research process. Not only does it help others understand your work, but it also allows for the reproduction and verification of your results in the future.

Ok – not everything, but in this episode you will get all the tips to make sure, you avoid the most common mistakes and that your code looks professional. Shafi Chowdhury is an expert programmer who has developed a style guide, which his clients apply broadly. He regularly gives trainings on SAS programming and build his own company based on these skills. He walks us through the different points and clarifies, why they are important from an efficiency but also from a quality perspective.