Working as a junior analyst at a large pharmaceutical company we had a tender document arrive due in 2 weeks for a massive amount of money. Being generally super keen I was given the brief 'can we do anything in this time period? If so, do it!' - usually our models take 4 months to build, and cost ~$100k.
I used meta-analysis our our trials vs the main competitors for each age group (children, adults, elderly), cross referenced to the age structure of the population i.e. number at risk in each group. This showed because of the numbers at risk our drug looked better.
I then included data on the harms and connsequences in each group, using past data, and added in monte carlo analysis around the uncertainty, which gave a massive chance of of ours being the optimum strategy.
It was only a part of the case we made, but was delivered in 10 days at a cost of $600 (software licenses), and really helped show what I could do. People still mention it now (it was 10 years ago). My boss at the time was also amazing in giving me freedom, but then helping communicate it all.
I've worked on some really cool projects in my career, but that's probably the one I'm proudest of.
Working as a junior analyst at a large pharmaceutical company we had a tender document arrive due in 2 weeks for a massive amount of money. Being generally super keen I was given the brief 'can we do anything in this time period? If so, do it!' - usually our models take 4 months to build, and cost ~$100k.
I used meta-analysis our our trials vs the main competitors for each age group (children, adults, elderly), cross referenced to the age structure of the population i.e. number at risk in each group. This showed because of the numbers at risk our drug looked better.
I then included data on the harms and connsequences in each group, using past data, and added in monte carlo analysis around the uncertainty, which gave a massive chance of of ours being the optimum strategy.
It was only a part of the case we made, but was delivered in 10 days at a cost of $600 (software licenses), and really helped show what I could do. People still mention it now (it was 10 years ago). My boss at the time was also amazing in giving me freedom, but then helping communicate it all.
I've worked on some really cool projects in my career, but that's probably the one I'm proudest of.