In this week’s episode, Greg and Patrick have a lovely conversation with Jeremy Miles who is a quantitative methodologist who has worked in both academic and industry settings. Jeremy draws on his own extensive experiences to describe what an industry job is like and how one can prepare to move into this type of position. Along the way they also discuss sub-conning expertise, mystery companies, American’s mispronunciations, Quantitude International, avoiding math, statistics vs. biostatistics, fighter pilots with Ph.D.’s, Eau Rouge, game rooms, 99% missing data, being correct-ish, harumphs, pay cuts, Kai Ryssdal, and Lewis Hamilton vs. George Russell.
Related Episodes
- S7E05: The Academic Job Talk
- S5E25: Is Being a Professor the Right Fit for Me?
- S3E28: The Challenges & Joys of Academia
- S2E06: Applying for Jobs: Unsolicited Advice from Uncle Greg & the Guy in the Yellow Shirt
Suggested Readings (thanks to Jeremy Miles!)
- Quantifying the Statistical Skills Needed to be a Google Data Scientist
- Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings
- How to Become a Data Scientist after PhD in the Social Sciences
- My Journey from Psych Grad to Leading Data Science at Lazada
- Hot jobs: Big-Data Psychologists (from American Psychological Association)