Data journalism and data visualization from the Datablog | News. Our Writing – Juice Analytics - Your data is meant for action. Much of what makes a great product manager is empathy and a desire to serve others. Tulsi demonstrates these qualities better than most I’ve come across. As you will see below, her passion for design as part of product management is only surpassed by that for her customers, products and causes. Oh, and there is usually much laughter involved. Enjoy and feel free to reach out to her at Even after years of product management experience at several companies, I still get frustrated when folks frequently say “So, you are a Project Manager”.
With this in mind, let’s begin this discussion by describing what a Product Manager is. As Catherine Shyu, Product Manager at Send Grid puts so nicely: “Much of a Product Manager’s responsibility is to juggle multiple streams of conversation and move them towards closure.” Successful disruptive and innovative brands like Basecamp, Airbnb, Fab, and many others have proven that features alone don’t improve the sales. The Numbers Guy. Infochimps Blog. Civil Statistician | Stats, datavis, edu, brains, etc. Revolutions. Simply Statistics. Interview with Tom Louis - New Chief Scientist at the Census Bureau Tom Louis Tom Louis is a professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins and will be joining the Census Bureau through an interagency personnel agreement as the new associate director for research and methodology and chief scientist.
Tom has an impressive history of accomplishment in developing statistical methods for everything from environmental science to genomics. We talked to Tom about his new role at the Census, how it relates to his impressive research career, and how young statisticians can get involved in the statistical work at the Census. SS: How did you end up being invited to lead the research branch of the Census?
As background, components of my research, especially Bayesian methods, is Census-relevant. Rod and I noted that it’s interesting and possibly not coincidental that with my appointment the first two associate directors are both former chairs of Biostatistics departments.