Entrepreneur, Data Scientist and Consultant with a focus on helping organizations apply strategic thinking to technology and data. I'm a Data Scientist (a real one with a doctorate and and experience and everything) and a Consultant. Also - I'm a semi-pro Photographer who doesn't get to spend as much time behind a camera as I'd like.Featured Articles
Data Maturity before Digital Maturity
I recently wrote about Digital Maturity vs Digital Transformation where I proclaimed that its more important to set your goal for digital maturity rather than just push your organization toward digital transformation initiatives. In this post, I want to talk about one of the most important aspects of digital maturity: Data Maturity. Before you can […]
Accuracy and Trust in Machine Learning
A few weeks ago, I wrote about machine learning risks where I described four ‘buckets’ of risk that needed to be understood and mitigated when you have machine learning initiatives. One major risk that I *should* have mentioned explicitly is the risk of accuracy and trust in machine learning. While I tend to throw this […]
Machine learning risks are real. Do you know what they are?
Machine Learning Risks are real and can be very dangerous if not managed / mitigated. Everyone wants to ‘do’ machine learning and lots of people are talking about it, blogging about it and selling services and products to help with it. I get it…machine learning can bring a lot of value to an organization – […]
What is the cost of bad data?
How much is bad data costing you? It could be very little – or it could be a great deal. In this article I give an example of what the cost of bad data really is. A few days ago, I received a nice, well designed sales/marketing piece in the mail yesterday. In it, a […]
Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. is a