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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…

2 min readJun 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.

21 min readNov 4, 2021

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The Sobering Truth about the Impact of your Business Ideas

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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)…

3 min readSep 23, 2021

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PM or Get PM’d

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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.]

10 min readJul 26, 2019

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

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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…

9 min readMar 11, 2019

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

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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.]

8 min readJan 19, 2019

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Let Curiosity Drive: Fostering Innovation in Data Science

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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]

10 min readJun 13, 2017

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

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A Tour of our Algorithms Allegories | Stitch Fix

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

2 min readMar 8, 2017

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A Tour of our Algorithms Allegories | Stitch Fix

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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…

8 min readJun 25, 2016

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

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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.

5 min readMar 31, 2015

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

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ericcolson

ericcolson

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

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