Starting a Statistics Consultancy | Janet Wittes
The following interview was a keynote fireside chat with Janet Wittes (Statistics Collaborative, Inc.) titled "Statisticians as Entrepreneurs". It was recorded for the BBSW 2021 Conference (Nov 3 - 5 in Foster City, CA).
References:
BBSW 2021 Conference: https://www.bbsw.org/bbsw2021
Topics:
0:00 Janet's background prior to founding Statistics Collaborative, Inc.
3:00 Janet's initial research interest as a consultant
4:10 Why did Janet start her own business as opposed to joining a company or university.
5:45 Who were Janet's first clients?
8:00 What did Janet want to instill in her company?
15:50 Earning enough money to hire people
18:55 Initial ratio of clients to employees
22:42 Janet's company's statistical tech stack
25:00 Different challenges at different stages of the company
27:28 Growing a company but not taking on every possible client or project
28:13 Statisticians as entrepreneurs
37:00 Choosing the right people
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Jack Fitzsimons | Evil Models: Hiding Malware in Neural Networks
Scott Cunningham | Causal Inference (The Mixtape)
Eric Daza | Important Ideas in Causal Inference
Wenting Cheng & Weidong Zhang | Advances in Biotech/Biopharma
Ruda Zhang | Gaussian Process Subspace Regression
Ruda Zhang | Math-Science Duality
Simon Mak | Integrating Science into Stats Models
Martin Goodson | Practical Data Science & The UK’s AI Roadmap
Jack Fitzsimons | Data Security, Privacy, & Artificial Intelligence
Chris Tosh | The piranha problem in statistics
Chris Holmes | AI, Digital Health, & The Alan Turing Institute
Philosophy of Data Science | Deborah Mayo | Revolutions, Reforms, and Severe Testing in Statistical Thinking
Charlotte Deane | Bioinformatics, Deepmind’s AlphaFold 2, and Llamas
Eric Schwitzgebel | Consciousness, Zombies, & First Person Data | Philosophy of Data Science
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Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel | Advancing Open Access Data Science Education
Jingyi Jessica Li | Statistical Hypothesis Testing vs Machine Learning Binary Classification
Gualtiero Piccinini | What Are First-Person Data? | Philosophy of Data Science
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