Stephanie and John talk about the academic data science portfolios. What are they? How are they different than industry data science portfolios or more traditional academic portfolios?Also check out the bloopers at the end!Some good links about portfolios and examples are: https://davidventuri.com/portfolio, https://www.dataquest.io/blog/build-a-da…

Stephanie and John talk about what is an "Academic Data Science Portfolio". While there is a lot of great information about what are (i) data science portfolios in industry and (ii) academic portfolios, we aimed to discuss the intersection of these two, why you need one, what goes in it, and so on. Follow us at https://twitter.com/stephaniehicks, h…

Stephanie and John talk about the hiring process and outreach of a post-doc. Topics include: funding, cold emails, interviews, and negotiable items. We also discuss difficulties in choosing amongst multiple offers.Conferences discussedENAR: https://www.enar.org/meetings/JSM: https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Meetings/Joint-Statistical-Meetings.aspxDiscuss…

Stephanie and John discuss some fun pandemic-changes, like 2 Zoom's at once. John thinks 2 Zooms at once should be a crime. We talk about choosing a post-doc, moving, and the pros and cons of post-docs vs. applying to academic positions vs. industry. We use industry in a large general bucket, though there are many different roles.We talk about how …

Stephanie and John discuss the paper "Documenting and Evaluating Data Science Contributions in Academic Promotion in Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics" by Lance Waller: https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2017.1375988 and https://www.biorxiv.org/node/29325.abstract. We discuss the promotion and tenure process and how they may be a bit differ…

Stephanie and John talk about COVID19/SARS-CoV-2 and all that. This episode was a Zoom video (not just audio!) where we discuss the influx of COVID-related funding. Feel free to reach out to us at https://twitter.com/correspondauth, https://twitter.com/stephaniehicks, https://twitter.com/StrictlyStat, or email us at or thecorrespondingauthor@gmail.…

Stephanie and John talk to (newly minted) Dr. Ben Ackerman (https://twitter.com/backerman150), the day after his dissertation defense! They discuss Ben's research in mental health and leadership in graduate student mental health at Johns Hopkins. We wish him the best in his next endeavor! Send messages to https://twitter.com/correspondauth or theco…

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Stephanie and John discuss interviewing at academic institutions. They go over the job talk, researching your interviewers, being excited, and the dinner. Send messages to https://twitter.com/correspondauth for questions or requests for new episodes.Bởi The Corresponding Author

Data Science Jobs: Stephanie and John discuss academic job searches, data science positions, and tenure-track vs not in this episode. See Stephanie's insights on her post here: https://github.com/stephaniehicks/classroomNotes/blob/master/academicJobNotes.md and John's post here: https://hopstat.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/tips-for-job-search/. The ref…

Stephanie and John discuss starting a new project. They discuss their file structures, discussing timelines, and trying to figure out when an analysis is complete.Bởi The Corresponding Author

Stephanie and John discuss choosing a journal to submit to. They discuss publishing software, reviewing papers with software, and also some submission woes. Follow the Corresponding Author at @CorrespondAuth, @strictlyStat, and @stephanieHicks.Bởi The Corresponding Author

Stephanie and John discuss conferences, including the joints statistical meeting (JSM), which is in Denver this year (https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2019/). We discuss student travel, deciding on going to a conference, networking, and other ins and outs. John says that Santa Fe can maybe hold a large convention, he meant San Diego.Also to keep…

Interview with Stuart Lee, a PhD candidate from Monash University. We discuss software development, data visualization, and Bioconductor.- Stephanie’s Google slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AlwLGTlc3ZFxY8PLpCZ5cwD3ktQyQqb1V6qub2I8360/edit?usp=sharing- Stuart’s blog post on making rookie mistakes and how to fix them when making plots…

Episode 4: Data Science Education, an interview with Jeff Leek. We interview Dr. Jeff Leek (https://twitter.com/jtleek) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about Data Science Education on Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhu-data-science), Cloud-Based Data Science (https://leanpub.com/universities/set/jhu/chromebo…

In this episode we discuss "What do we mean by Data Science?", where we discuss definitions such as Drew Conway's Venn Diagram: http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-diagram. Stephanie discusses her definition in her preprint "Elements and Principles of Data Analysis"(https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07639).…

Stephanie and John sit down with Dr. Amanda Mejia (https://twitter.com/mandyfmejia, https://mandymejia.com/) and talk about academic data science. We discuss her recent publication in JASA (https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2019.1611582) and teaching future data scientists.Bởi The Corresponding Author

Episode 1 of The Corresponding Author (https://twitter.com/correspondAuth) with Stephanie Hicks (https://twitter.com/correspondAuth/stephaniehicks) and John Muschelli (https://twitter.com/StrictlyStat). We introduce ourselves, discuss the goal of the podcast, why we made it, and some future episodes.…