Dakota State University - Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

Progress on the Doctorate – Fall 2010

December 2, 2010 by Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

So the Fall 2010 semester is coming to an end and it looks like I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve got to actually write something longer than a few pages 🙂 This semester I took what I hope is my last course required for the program (it was an E-Commerce course). In addition to … Read more Progress on the Doctorate – Fall 2010

My New Blog – Road to the Doctorate Blog

September 9, 2009 by Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

If you didn’t know, I’m working on my Doctor of Science degree in Information Systems at Dakota State University. In the past, I’ve posted updates to this blog about my status but have always felt a bit like those updates (and my journey through the doctorate program) deserved more than just an occasional post on … Read more My New Blog – Road to the Doctorate Blog

Doctorate Pursuit – Year 1

January 27, 2012August 29, 2008 by Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

The first year of my doctorate program is done! Actually…I finished my last course about a month ago but with the Fall 2008 semester starting next week, I figured I should claim the First Year is complete. During the first year I took five courses: INFS 614 – Introduction to Research INFS 720 – Systems … Read more Doctorate Pursuit – Year 1

About Eric

Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. is a technology consultant, investor and entrepreneur with an interest in using technology and data to solve real-world business problems. He currently runs his own consulting practice focused on helping organizations use their data more efficiently. Additionally, he is the Chief Information Officer of Sundial Capital Research, publisher of SentimenTrader

Eric received his Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Information Systems in 2014 with a dissertation titled “Analysis of Twitter Messages for Sentiment and Insight for use in Stock Market Decision Making”. His research interests are currently in the areas of decision support, data science, big data, natural language processing, sentiment analysis and social media analysis.In recent years, he has combined sentiment analysis, natural language processing and big data approaches to build innovative systems and strategies to solve interesting problems. You can read some of his research here: Eric D. Brown on ResearchGate

In addition, he is an entrepreneur that has launched a few companies with the most recent being a company focused on proving data analytics and visualization services to the financial markets.

He also likes to take photographs when he can.