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…Jun 28, 20191Jun 28, 20191
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.Nov 4, 2021Nov 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)…Sep 23, 2021Sep 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.]Jul 26, 2019Jul 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…Mar 11, 2019Mar 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.]Jan 19, 2019Jan 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]Jun 13, 2017Jun 13, 2017
ericcolsonA Tour of our Algorithms Allegories | Stitch FixOriginally published at multithreaded.stitchfix.com on March 8, 2017.Mar 8, 2017Mar 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…Jun 25, 2016Jun 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.Mar 31, 2015Mar 31, 2015