27 development
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Hadley Wickham
Stat405Professional development
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Poster presentation
• Thursday 4:30-5:30
• Come a little early to set up
• Please dress professionally
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1. Overview
2. Learn your tools
3. Communication
4. Email
5. Feedback
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Overview
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What is professional development?
Things that have little pay off now, but big pays off in the future
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Learn your tools
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Learn your tools
• Touch typing
• Text editor
• Command line
• Caffeine
• R
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Mailing list
Sign up to R-help: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
Make sure to set up filters
Skim interesting subjects and read them
Don’t be afraid to post (use a pseudonym if necessary)
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Books
R in a nutshell, Joseph Adler. http://amzn.com/059680170X
Data manipulation with R, Phil Spector. http://amzn.com/0387747303
Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R, John Chambers. http://amzn.com/0387759352
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BooksRegression Modeling Strategies, Frank Harrell. http://amzn.com/0387952322
Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS, Jose Pinheiro and Douglas Bates. http://amzn.com/1441903178 and http://lme4.r-forge.r-project.org/book/
Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models, Andrew Gelman and Jennifer Hill. http://amzn.com/052168689X
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Journals
The R Journal, http://journal.r-project.org/
The Journal of Statistical Software, http://www.jstatsoft.org/
Statistical computing and graphics newsletter, http://stat-computing.org/newsletter/
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Communication
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Professional development
The aspects of being a statistician, apart from knowing statistics.
Principally communication: written, spoken, visual and electronic.
Take every opportunity you can to practice these skills.
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Electronic
Written
Spoken
Website
Blog
Papers
Reviews
Vita/Resume
VideoSlidecast
Posters
Code
Long talk
Short talk
Oral exam
Visual
Bibliography
Teaching
Graphics
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WrittenParticularly important if you want to be an academic, or if you‘re PhD student, or want to become one.
“Style: Toward Clarity and Grace” – http://amzn.com/0226899152
Sign up for the thesis writing workshops when they come around.
Develop a regular habit.
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My habit
• Roll out of bed at 7am
• Make tea
• Write for an hour
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Spoken
Seize every opportunity to practice.
Make use of Tracy Volz - [email protected]. She is a fantastic resource - if you had to pay for her, you wouldn’t be able to afford it.
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http://www.43folders.com/izero
Merlin Mann
There is no way you will ever be able to respond to — let alone read in exquisite detail — every email you ever receive for the rest of your life. If you take issue with this, just wait six months, because, believe me, we’re all getting a lot more email (and other sundry demands on our attention) every day. What seems like a doddle today is going to get progressively
more difficult — even insurmountable — unless you put a realistic system in place now.
Inbox Zero
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Your time is priceless (and wildly limited)
You need an agnostic system for dealing with mail that isn’t based on
nonces, exceptions, and guilt.
[The] ultimate goal is for you to spend less time playing with your email and
more time doing stuff. Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Key concepts
Regularly empty your inbox
Minimal response
Delete, delete, delete
Filters
Email dashes
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Inbox Zero
Your inbox is not your to do list! (or it shouldn’t be)
“The truth is that you probably can take the average email inbox – even a relatively neglected one – from full to zero in about 20 minutes. It mostly depends on how much you really want to be done with it. The dirty little secret, of course, is that you don’t do it by responding to each of those emails but by ruthlessly processing them.”
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“In an environment where attention is the economic equivalent of cash, you aren’t doing people any favors
by sending gothic novels. And taking your cues for etiquette, propriety, and efficiency on a message-by-message basis will quickly land you in a very bouncy
room with a fresh box of crayons.”
Response does not need to be proportional to request
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“Good idea. I’ll add it to my to do list.”
“Here’s a link that might be what you’re looking for…”
http://www.43folders.com/2006/03/13/email-cheats
“Do you still need this?”
“I don’t know”
[Delete]
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http://tinyurl.com/nfdlzh
The nuclear holocaust of responses:
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Delete!
Most minimal response is none.
“Just remember that every email you read, re-read, and re-re-re-re-re-read as it sits in that big dumb pile is actually incurring mental debt on your behalf.”
Be brutally honest - if you’re not going to do anything with the email delete it now.
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Filters grey mail
“noisy, frequent, and non-urgent items which can be dealt with all at a pass and later.”
facebook, comments, university/department memos, newsletters, mailing lists
Good catch all: contains unsubscribe
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[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] subject:(weekly message), [email protected], list:"k2i-members.rice.edu", list:"mailman.rice.edu"
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
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Patricia Wallace, a techno-psychologist, believes part of the allure of e-mail—for adults as well as teens—is similar to that of a slot machine. “You have intermittent, variable reinforcement,” she explains. You are not sure you are going to get a reward every time or how often you will, so you keep pulling that handle.”
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Email dashes
Don’t have your email open all day. Schedule times when you respond to emails.
You can tackle emails a lot faster when you batch them up.
Lack self control (like me)? Try an internet blocker: http://macfreedom.com/
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More reading
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-stone
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/habit-fields/
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