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What every young statistician should know

Developing your identity, networking and marketing



Presented by Emi Tanaka

Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
emi.tanaka@monash.edu @statsgen

30/09/2020 @ YSW SSA-WA | Online Zoom

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What every young statistician should know

Developing your identity, networking and marketing



Presented by Emi Tanaka

Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
emi.tanaka@monash.edu @statsgen

30/09/2020 @ YSW SSA-WA | Online Zoom

(but don't need to do)

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In 2015, there are 7.8 million active researchers among the 7.3 billion people in the world

Photo by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash Number source: Elsevier website and The World Bank

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"Approximately 400,000 ... manuscripts were eventually published in approximately 2,500 active Journals.. in 2015."

Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash Number source: Elsevier website

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  • Just in 2018, there were over 140,000 arXiv manuscript submissions.

  • The number of arXiv submissions is exponentially increasing.
  • There are over 3.46 billion people in the labour force in 2019.

  • Compared to 2.76 billion people 20 years ago.
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Times are changing....


What worked 20 years ago doesn't mean it will work now.

How will you or your work be discovered?

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Technological advances changes communication style

What's your communication toolkit?
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Technological advances changes communication style

What's your communication toolkit?
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Profile Website

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"If you can’t find it on Google, it doesn’t exist."

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"If you can’t find it on Google, it doesn’t exist."

If we can't find you on Google, do you even exist?

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Have a profile website

with easy-to-find and up-to-date contact information

  • So people can contact you (yes, duuuh but some people don't have this!!)

with details of who you are or what you are about

  • Having the right keywords is important so that you are high on the search list. People are not likely to search beyond page 2 of Google search list!

  • Don't assume people know you. There are more people who don't know you than know you in this world.

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Twitter

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Why twitter?

"scholarly Twitter use is growing"

- Priem, Costello and Dzuba 2011

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Get real-time informaton

  • It doesn't have to be twitter but I've found it to be an excellent medium to get some latest information.

Jobs

Events

Check out #JSM2020 about the
Joint Statistical Meeting 2020.

Latest news

Check out #rstats for R community posts.

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Networking - without the travelling!

  • To meet and get to know people, you usually had to go to events or conferences (now we can't even travel).
  • There are diverse range of people on twitter from students to prominent professors; industry to academia.
  • You can get a feel of what people or groups are like and what they stand for by looking at their posts and interactions.
  • You can see some community chatter and get a feel of people's perception on matters.
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Julia Silge

Data Scientist at RStudio

Daniela Witten

Professor at the University of Washington

Robert Tibshirani

Professor at Stanford University

Karl Broman

Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Shih Ching Fu
Graduate student at Curtin University

Alyce Russell
Postdoc at Edith Cowan Univesrity

Saskia Freytag
Postdoc at UWA Centre for Medical Research

Nicola Armstrong
A/Prof at Murdoch University
(Curtin University from 2021)

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Casual scholarly (and non-scholarly) interactions over twitter:

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Social media implications

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Altmetric (default) weighted count

"The Altmetric Attention Score for a research output provides an indicator of the amount of attention that it has received."

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Every submitted article in arXiv automatically gets a tweet (after passing moderation)

Top viewed arXiv articles get a special tweet

bioRXiv has tweet mentions of the article on bottom of the article

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Social media pitfalls

  • Keep in mind that you are engaging with real people.
  • Don't say something that you wouldn't say in person.
  • Be mindful that what you say can be easily misconstrued so be vigilant in being critical however well intentioned you may be.
    (Some conversation are just better left face-to-face.)
  • Your professional social media account are generally public. Be aware that you are broadcasting 🔈
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Weigh it up

  • Ultimately, you decide how much to utilise social media for work.
  • Your comfort level will differ to others, so not choosing to engage with it is perfectly fine.

Be aware

  • There are occasional impersonations (check someone else isn't pretending to be you).
  • People may mention you on social media even if you are not on it.
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Thanks!


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Emi Tanaka

  @statsgen
  emi.tanaka@monash.edu

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What every young statistician should know

Developing your identity, networking and marketing



Presented by Emi Tanaka

Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
emi.tanaka@monash.edu @statsgen

30/09/2020 @ YSW SSA-WA | Online Zoom

(but don't need to do)

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