What is a statistical unicorn?
What should we be doing to become one?

Gary Sullivan introduced me to Ena and she's a really interesting statistician. She was actually quite ahead of her time when she founded her CRO.

What are the limitations and strength of introverts in negotiations?
What does listening really mean and why is it important for negotiations?
How do to handle different emotions during negotiations or emotional hijack?
How to extract intel from without being obvious?

It is important to be an effective negotiator as negotiation is all around us all the time. Whether it's about daily life or making decisions at work as statisticians. But at as experts in this field (and being mostly introverts), we need several skills to develop and grow our negotiation skills.

What is Dark Data?
What inspired David to write this book? 
What did he hope to accomplish in its writing?

Today, we all make decisions using data. Dark Data shows us all how to reduce the risk of making bad ones.

How does data visualization work for journalism?
What can we learn from it as statisticians?

Today, we will be talking about data visualization in journalism with Irene. She has worked for BBC so she has a background with journalism and we will learn from her perspective.

Are you looking for a promotion or a higher salary?
What are the processes to grant these kind of requests?
Can you ask for this right away or is there a specific timing?

When I started my career, I had no clue about this topic so I made a lot of mistakes and learned it the hard way.

The right approach to this depends on number of things. One is considering the size of your company. If you are in a small company, the chance of directly negotiating with the owner of a CRO is bigger than the big companies. While in bigger companies, you need to undergo a certain process in the HR department.

What is a good or bad strategy?
What is the difference between strategy and goals?
Has strategy something to do with vision or long-term thinking?

What is due diligence?
Why do you need a statistician in it?

Afraid of speaking up?
Afraid of talking to senior management?
Afraid of giving a presentation? 
Afraid of speaking to someone new?

Then you are definitively not alone. Many supervisor worry about their staff not speaking up and I have come across even senior statisticians, who are very uncomfortable about doing a pre-recorded interview for the podcast.

How do you create and teach effective and moving content that your audience will pay attention to and add great value to them?

Teaching is really important to us statisticians because we need to explain stats and data all the time to our colleagues, within stats or outside stats.