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Why Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists

In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith demonstrates how the division of labor is the chief source of productivity gains using the vivid…

Jun 28, 2019

Jun 28, 2019

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The Sobering Truth about the Impact of your Business Ideas

This 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, 2021

The Sobering Truth about the Impact of your Business Ideas

Nov 4, 2021

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PM or Get PM’d

Product- and Project Management are critical for data science initiatives (in this piece, I use “PM” to refer to both functions combined)…

Sep 23, 2021

PM or Get PM’d

Sep 23, 2021

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Moving 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, 2019

Moving from Data-Driven to AI-Driven: The Next Step in the Evolution of Business Workflows

Jul 26, 2019

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Beware 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, 2019

Beware the data science pin factory: The power of the full-stack data science generalist and the…

Mar 11, 2019

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Let 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, 2019

Let Curiosity Drive: Fostering Innovation in Data Science

Jan 19, 2019

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up… Or, Can You?

[this article is cross-posted from multithreaded and co-authored with Joerg Fritz]

Jun 13, 2017

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up… Or, Can You?

Jun 13, 2017

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A Tour of our Algorithms Allegories | Stitch Fix

Originally published at multithreaded.stitchfix.com on March 8, 2017.

Mar 8, 2017

A Tour of our Algorithms Allegories | Stitch Fix

Mar 8, 2017

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More 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, 2016

More Human Humans: One way in which our lives can be made better by ceeding tasks to machines.

Jun 25, 2016

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Advice for Data Scientists on Where to Work | Stitch Fix Technology — Multithreaded

Originally published at multithreaded.stitchfix.com on March 31, 2015 with co-authors Brad Klingenberg and Jeff Magnusson.

Mar 31, 2015

Advice for Data Scientists on Where to Work | Stitch Fix Technology — Multithreaded

Mar 31, 2015

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ericcolson

Former Chief Algorithms Officer @stitchfix, Former VP of Data Science & Engineering @Netflix, Former editor of http://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/

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