Pinnedericcolsonin97 ThingsWhy Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not SpecialistsIn The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith demonstrates how the division of labor is the chief source of productivity gains using the vivid…2 min read·Jun 28, 2019--1--1
ericcolsonThe Sobering Truth about the Impact of your Business IdeasThis post is a re-posting of an article first published at oreilly.com and written with my co-authors, Daragh Sibley and David Spiegel.21 min read·Nov 4, 2021----
ericcolsonPM or Get PM’dProduct- and Project Management are critical for data science initiatives (in this piece, I use “PM” to refer to both functions combined)…3 min read·Sep 23, 2021----
ericcolsonMoving from Data-Driven to AI-Driven: The Next Step in the Evolution of Business Workflows[This post is an adaptation of the article that originally appeared in HBR.]10 min read·Jul 26, 2019----
ericcolsonBeware the data science pin factory: The power of the full-stack data science generalist and the…[This article is cross-posted from multithreaded and is a slightly modified version of the article I wrote for HBR originally published…9 min read·Mar 11, 2019----
ericcolsonLet Curiosity Drive: Fostering Innovation in Data Science[This blog post is more nuanced version of my HBR article titled Curiosity Driven Data Science. Also cross-posted from multithreaded.]8 min read·Jan 19, 2019----
ericcolsoninTowards Data ScienceYou Can’t Make This Stuff Up… Or, Can You?[this article is cross-posted from multithreaded and co-authored with Joerg Fritz]10 min read·Jun 13, 2017----
ericcolsonA Tour of our Algorithms Allegories | Stitch FixOriginally published at multithreaded.stitchfix.com on March 8, 2017.2 min read·Mar 8, 2017----
ericcolsonMore Human Humans: One way in which our lives can be made better by ceeding tasks to machines.Machines are going to take over the world and leave us humans without jobs. This is the meme going around in mainstream business books on…8 min read·Jun 25, 2016----
ericcolsonAdvice for Data Scientists on Where to Work | Stitch Fix Technology — MultithreadedOriginally published at multithreaded.stitchfix.com on March 31, 2015 with co-authors Brad Klingenberg and Jeff Magnusson.5 min read·Mar 31, 2015----