Realizations in Biostatistics

Tired of slides, I’ve been experimenting with different ways of presenting. At the recent Conference on Statistical Practice, I decided only to use slides for an outline and references. As it turns out, the most critical feedback I got had to do with the fact that the audience couldn’t follow the organization because I had no slides.

I tried presenting without slides because, well, I started to use them as a crutch. I also saw a lot of people presenting essentially by putting together slides and reading from them. So I figured I would expand my horizons.

Next time I present, I’ll do slides, I guess, but I may try something a bit different.

Hans Rosling gave a TED talk in 2006. If you love to work with data, you must watch this.

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By the way, I am a statistician, and I love it. Yeah, this is all observational and "hypothesis-generating," as we like to say, but letting the data sing their story tells us where to concentrate our efforts.