Understand the study
We connect your research questions and hypotheses to the data you actually collected.
ABOUT GRAD DATA COACH
Data analysis support built around understanding.
Grad Data Coach provides private online coaching for Master's and PhD researchers who want to make better analytical decisions and confidently explain their work.
YOUR COACH
Joseph Mburu
Data Analysis & Research Methods Coach
I help Master's and PhD students make sense of their research data and statistical analysis. Sessions focus on your own project so you understand each decision instead of receiving a black-box answer.
Based in Nairobi, Kenya. Coaching students online worldwide.
My role is not to give you a statistical result that becomes a black box. The aim is to help you understand the reasoning behind the analysis, work through the difficult parts with you, and make sure you can explain the decisions in your own research.
Work With Me →THE COACHING APPROACH
Research decisions first. Software second.
A good analysis starts with the research question, design, variables, measurement, and assumptions. The software should implement those decisions, not make them for you.
Make defensible choices
We discuss why a method fits, what assumptions matter, and what alternatives may be appropriate.
Build confidence
You leave with clearer reasoning for supervisor meetings, written results, presentations, and the viva or defense.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Graduate researchers who want expert guidance without losing ownership of the research.
Master's students
Get help moving from a research question to a suitable analysis and a clear interpretation.
PhD and doctoral students
Work through more complex analytical decisions, diagnostics, revisions, and defense preparation.
Students responding to supervisor feedback
Translate statistical comments into specific actions and understand why the requested changes matter.
AREAS OF SUPPORT
Quantitative research across common graduate workflows.
Sessions can focus on planning, cleaning, assumptions, statistical testing, modeling, interpretation, or preparing to explain the analysis.
SPSSRPythonStataRegressionANOVALogistic RegressionEFA / CFASEMMachine Learning
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
You remain the researcher.
Grad Data Coach is a coaching service. The objective is to strengthen your understanding and help you perform and defend your analysis. You remain responsible for following your university's policies and for the academic work you submit.
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BRING YOUR RESEARCH QUESTION
We can work through the difficult part together.
Describe the analysis problem, software, or supervisor feedback you are dealing with.