It’s easy to mock social media, but these are important tools not just for sharing pictures of the food your eating but for informing your colleagues about your research. This article gives a nice overview of how to effectively use tools like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Human side of statistics
Recommended: Communicating Statistical Findings to Consulting Clients Operating in a Decisionmaking Climate: Best and Worst Practices
There were a large number of excellent talks at the 2014 Joint Statistics Meeting. This session discusses practical issues associated with communication. Although I did not attend this session, it looks pretty good and the speakers have all placed their slides in a single location. Continue reading
PMean: Course proposal on setting up an independent consulting practice
I was asked to prepare a proposal on a short course about consulting for an upcoming Statistics conference. I had talked about this in an earlier blog post. Here is the official submission which includes the course description, outline and objectives, some information about my qualifications to teach the class, and a summary of how this class fits into the theme of the conference. Here’s what I wrote. Continue reading
PMean: Proposed outline for “How to Start and Run an Independent Statistical Consulting Business”
There has been a bit of discussion on submitting a proposal to teach a class on running an independent consulting business for an upcoming statistics conference. I think it would be a great idea and I want to suggest a tentative outline. Continue reading
Recommended: The riddle of experience vs. memory
There are a series of experiments that show that your memory of an event is colored more by the experience at the end of the event. This leads to some fascinating contradictions between what you should want from a rational perspective and what you actually want. The speaker is a Nobel-Prize winning Economist who has developed much of the research in behavioral economics. Continue reading
PMean: Two questions you should always ask at the end of a consulting session
There was a discussion in the ASA Consulting Section forum about how to avoid “failures” in consulting. Failures can mean a variety of things, missed deadlines, incorrect analysis, misunderstanding of client needs, and so forth. How can you avoid failure in a consulting environment? Continue reading