Date/Time: July 10, 2018
Abstract: Because applied statisticians rarely “own” the data they analyze, they must collaborate with others if they want to solve useful problems. All of the various aspects of collaboration, however, can at times seem like a puzzle. To help applied statisticians learn essential collaboration skills, the ASA Committee on Applied Statisticians organized a series of ten webinars. This final webinar in the series presents a cohesive theory of collaboration fitting together key takeaways from the previous webinars so that any statistician or data scientist can apply this theory to improve the effectiveness of their collaborations.
We believe that the core aspects of Collaboration are Attitude, Structure, Content, Communication, and Relationship (ASCCR). In this webinar we will review the elements of ASCCR detailed in previous webinars and provide guidance for how you can implement the ASCCR framework to become a more effective collaborative statistician.
Speakers Bios: For the past 10 years, Eric Vance, an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been the director of LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis) where he has trained 256 statisticians to move between theory and practice to collaborate with 9000+ domain experts to apply statistics and data science to answer their research or business questions. He has taught workshops and webinars on collaboration around the world, including several in collaboration with Heather Smith. Heather Smith has 27 years of experience consulting with academic, industrial, service, and government clients in the United States, Europe, and Asia. She began this work as a statistical consultant at Westat, Inc. For 20 years she has been a faculty member in the Statistics Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where she consults with academic and private sector researchers and teaches a wide variety of applied statistics courses, including courses in statistical communication and consulting. She has offered over a dozen workshops, short courses, and webinars on these topics, and has trained hundreds of statistical collaborators.
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