Tag: consulting business

5 Basics of Consulting Success: Part 1

Being a data science freelancer, and a long-time AnnMaria’s fan, I HAVE to repost here latest post on consulting success

Last week, I mentioned that successful consultants have five categories of skills; communication, testing, statistics, programming and generalist. COMMUNICATION Communication is the number one most important skill. All five are necessary to some extent, but a terrific communicator with mediocre statistical analysis skills will get more business than a stellar statistician that can’t communicate. Communication…

5 Basics of Consulting Success: Part 1 — AnnMaria’s Blog

The first things a statistical consultant needs to know — AnnMaria’s Blog

You know that I’m a data science consultant now, don’t you? You know that AnnMaria De Mars, Ph.D. (the statistician, game developer, the world Judo champion) is one of my favorite bloggers, and her blog is the second blog I started to follow don’t you? 

A couple of months ago, AnnMaria wrote an extensive post about 30 things she learned in 30 years as a statistical consultant. One week ago, she wrote another great piece of advice.

I’ll be speaking about being a statistical consultant at SAS Global Forum in D.C. in March/ April. While I will be talking a little bit about factor analysis, repeated measures ANOVA and logistic regression, that is the end of my talk. The first things a statistical consultant should know don’t have much to do with…

The first things a statistical consultant needs to know — AnnMaria’s Blog