Communication & Writing

Many of the links above have communication resources.

Communication Skills (giving professional talks)

• Brad Efron’s 13 Rules
• Guidelines for Preparing Effective Presentations (Biometrics ENAR Section)
• James Gee’s 14 Principles of Good Teaching & Good Learning
• Making Data Meaningful Guides(UN Econ Commission for Europe)
• Presentation Tips (About.com)
• Tips for Effective Presentation (Accu Conference)
• Statistical Presentation Guidelines (Nat U Singapore)
• Presenting Statistics on Web Sites (John Maslin, Geowise)
• Guidelines for Statistical Analysis and Data Presentation (Ecological Society of America)
• Creativity and Learning: A Conversation with Lynda Barry (lynda.com)
• The Care and Feeding of the Biostatistician & the Scientist Collaborator (Elizabeth Matsui & Roger Peng)
• Biologist Talks to Statistician (video)
• Communicating Statistical Findings to Consulting Clients Operating in a Decisionmaking Climate: Best and Worst Practices (Ghement Stat Cons)
• ASA Statistical Consulting Section

Technical Writing

• LaTeX has for years been the standard for writing beautiful math expressions and with the advent of versions like pdflatex, xelatex and lualatex it is very convenient to produce PDF files. The big drawback to PDF is that the formatting is fixed in the file - you can’t “reflow” the text. HTML and epub formats allow reflowing of text so that you can easily read a document on a tablet or even a smartphone. However, you usually lose the beautiful math formatting.
• MathJax.org provides a way of incorporating high-quality math expressions in HTML for reading in a browser. The Rmd translator built into RStudio allows the use of MathJax markup, which is essentially the same as LaTeX expressions. MathJax is also available in IPython notebooks and IJulia notebooks. These are interactive web documents but can be converted to static HTML pages. Doug Bates created Mathjax static HTML for the MixedModels.jl Julia package. Wes Brooks included MathJax typesetting in a blog written in Markdown and served via Django.
• Prefered slide package with Rstudio/RMarkdown: xaringan. Other options are Beamer with LaTeX and Reveal.js.