This is a series of episodes and today's content is the first episode. Join Jenny and I while we dive into her career and discuss important points about the following:

• What is Launch and Lifecycle
• How as it evolved in the last 2 decades with respect to
  • Phase IV studies
  • Observational studies
  • RWE
  • HTA
  • Global vs local positions
• What is the relationship between HTA vs non-HTA areas and collaboration with stakeholders
• Collaboration with the regulatory side
• Involvement in strategic evidence generation
• Number of statisticians/programmers supporting this area
• Organization within or outside of statistics departments 
• Outsourcing approaches (strategic parts, RWE and outcomes research, studies, NMA/health economics)

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In today's episode, we will be diving deep into this interesting topic and talk specifically about the following:

• How did you get interested in causal inferences
• If we have an observational study with 2 arms and differences in baseline variables, what are the best ways to adjust for these?
• What does this look like for multiple treatment arms?
• In longer studies, we happen to see switches between different treatments. How do we compare treatments appropriately in these cases?

References:

• Wikipedia: Miguel Hernan
• Harvard TH Chan

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After a short introduction of Nigel and his experience with PSI, we will cover the following topics:

• How can someone, that is interested become a new PSI member?
• What rules are there for students?
• If you’re a data scientist in the pharma industry- is PSI the right association?
• How to get most out of PSI?
• What are the different ways, you can become more engaged within PSI?
• How can you get involved with one of the PSI committees? 
• What’s the role of the SIGs and how do you get involved there?
• What Nigel is recommending new members of PSI as first steps?
• What are your highlights of the PSI conference in Amsterdam?

Finally, we’ll also discuss how to get most out of the conference.

In this episode, Liane Davey, who is the author of the book "The Good Fight", and I will be discussing about how to say no effectively. I met her on Linkedin and we had a couple of messages and it was just really cool that we think the same way. Stay tuned because you'll surely love it!

We discuss about the following points:

• How to say no
• How to build boundaries
• How to say it effectively
• How do we embrace conflict: The Good Fight Book
• How buffer in our schedule and "no" relate to each other

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In this episode, Paolo and I discuss the importance of visualisation in understanding subgroups. Specifically we speak about:

• Why visualisation is important
• How to create effective visualisation
• Graphical display of subgroups
• Subgroup explorer
• Exploring robustness of subgroups between studies 
• Three step approach
• Meta-analysis of interaction
• Graphic Display of Heterogeneity GOSH plot
• Shiny App

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The discussion also touches on:

• Who are the Key Opinion Leaders?
• How using Altmetric and Dimensions data, links can be identified and groups of the influential leaders in different research spheres can be discovered?
• When diving into the research landscape of a particular Therapeutic Area or clinical research focus, getting the low down on who is authoring with whom, and who is ‘leading the pack’, is crucial?
• How having this kind of insight into the dissemination and ‘journey’ of research provides ‘organizational wisdom’ that can enhance foresight, competitor analysis or benchmarking and importantly, inform outreach and publication strategies?

Links:

• Altmetric
• Dimensions
• Digital Science

The things we are discussing:

• The index date
• Exposure outcome association and order of operations
• Words to approach with caution
• Common pitfalls
• Managing the project

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Join Sam and I while we talk about the following advice on how to start the week right:

• Don't dive directly into meetings or emails
• Review your annual goals
• Review your achievements from last week
• Start/stop/change/continue
• Review existing to-dos and open-loops
• Review the upcoming week's events
• Plan your weekly big 3
• Clean up your calendar
• Plan your daily big events
• What things that can wait
• Have an invite in your calendar with these steps to create a routine or use the full focus planner

References:

• This is your life! This is an older podcast by Michael Hyatt in which he talks a lot about these topics. He has also some new podcasts which you can find here: https://fullfocus.co/
• Link to the Full Focus Planner
• Free to Focus book

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Stay tuned as we talk about these helpful points:

• How did Karrie get into helping charities with data science
• What are typical challenges charities have
• What are the differences of other organisations which provide help to charities?
• What should a statistician/programmer or data scientist do to help you move forward?

More about Karie:

• Hypatia Analytics

• Karrie Liu

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Join us while we will talk about these following points:

• When have you learned about personal leadership principles?
• Why are they important to have?
• What should they be about and what not?
• How do you use them?
• How did you establish yours?

See also episode https://theeffectivestatistician.com/my-personal-leadership-principles/

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