Ep046: Data, data, insight! Find out what you are missing, with Phil Bolton

Published: July 12, 2017, 11:04 p.m.

b'This is Safety on Tap! \\xa0 I\'m your host Andrew Barrett, and since you\'re listening in, you must be a leader wanting to grow yourself and drastically improve health and safety along the way.\\xa0 Welcome to you, you\'re in the right place.\\xa0 If this is your first time listening in, thanks for joining us and well done for trying something different to improve! \\xa0 Phil Bolton is my guest today.\\xa0 Phil is a data scientist, whose been doing this for almost as long as the concept of data science has existed.\\xa0 He is a Director at PWC and has spent his career in professional services companies helping clients get greater insights from their data. \\xa0 This episode is brought to you by the Safety Institute of Australia\'s 2017 Victorian Conference called Safety STEPS, Strategies Towards Efficient Productive Systems.\\xa0 Phil will be speaking at the conference on Machine learning and related concepts, alongside a great lineup of speakers.\\xa0 You can find out more about that conference and grab a ticket at www.sia.org.au, I hope to see you there! \\xa0 Here\'s Phil: \\xa0 [thrive_lead_lock id=\'1542\'] Safety Analytics - One Page Summary Health and Safety Analytics - Safety Institute of Australia Magazine Premium Subscriber Article [/thrive_lead_lock] \\xa0 Here\'s my favourite links to start learning more about statistics: Basic Statistics Descriptive Statistics Once you have a basic understanding of these you need to move on to inferential statistics. I mentioned Pockets of Brilliance last episode.\\xa0 They\'ve got an amazing track record not only in helping organisations change for the better, but to actually make the change stick.\\xa0 They call this their 5i method.\\xa0 If you want to find out more about their 5i method before their live training in late June, they are hosting a free webinar on the 19th June, which is less than a week from this episode\'s release.\\xa0 You can register for that webinar over at www.pobrilliance.com, I went to the last one, and found it really insightful. Speaking of their method, I\'ve got one of their leaders Jonathan coming on the podcast next episode, to share more insights with you about leading change, the psychology behind it, and the reason why stickiness is the core mission of their business.\\xa0 You can get advanced notice of new episodes, my personal reflections on each episode, and a bunch more special stuff if you hop onto our mailing list over at safetyontap.com'