5 Basics of Consulting Success: Part 1
Of all the qualities necessary to be a successful statistical consultant, none is more important than communication, even if that communication is only with your future self.
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The one skill a statistical consultant must have
There are actually 5 strengths you need to be a successful statistical consultant; communication, testing, statistics (duh), programming and general knowledge outside of your field.
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The first things a statistical consultant needs to know
I’ll be speaking about being a statistical consultant at SAS Global Forum in D.C. in March/ April. While I will be talking a little bit about factor analysis, repeated measures ANOVA and logistic regression, that is the end of my talk. The first things a statistical consultant should know don’t have much to do with…
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From PHPMyAdmin to SAS Studio for lazy people
You can get data from PHPMyAdmin into SAS Studio with a dozen clicks, even if you know zero SQL.
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Why use SAS as a statistical consultant?
If you’re the kind of statistical consultant that has a range of clients, the ability of SAS to easily read lots of data formats is a godsend for you.
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7 Tips to Not Getting Screwed by Your Data
First of all, I want to draw your attention to this retraction in the Journal of the American Medical Association and mad props to Drs. Aboumatar and Wise and John Hopkins for doing the right thing in publicly retracting it. For the TL; DR crowd Someone who is probably now unemployed miscoded the study groups…
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Don’t believe your numbers too much: IPEDS example
The famous statistician, F.N. (for Florence Nightingale) David was a professor at UC Riverside, where I earned my doctorate. My advisor told this story about her: We were on this dissertation committee – I forget if it was for biology or what, back then, this was a small campus so if you were in statistics…
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30 Things I Learned in 30 Years as a Statistical Consultant – Part 1 of lots
Never fear, I’m not going to post all 30 things in this post. This is a series. A LONG series. Get excited. I was invited to speak at SAS Global Forum next year and it occurred to me after thinking about it for 14.2 seconds that there are plenty of people at SAS and elsewhere…
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Who’s a 10X Engineer?
A twitter storm erupted recently in response to one person’s thread about how to find a 10x engineer . Since I started programming FORTRAN with punched cards back in 1974, was an industrial engineer in the 1980s and now run a software company, I’ve worked with a few people, rightly or wrongly considered to fall…
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Stupid Mistakes with SAS I have made
One thing I like about our company a lot is none of our developers fit the stereotype of the 10x coder asshole. Don’t get me wrong, we have more than our share of people who are absolutely great at their jobs. What we don’t have is the arrogant attitude of: What do you mean you…
