- Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

Gamification Revisited

June 28, 2012 by Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. As a follow up to my post titled Gamification as a Rewards Systems (?), I wanted to take a second to highlight a comment made by Jacob Ratliff on that post. Jacob writes: Gamification can be a really good thing if it’s meaningful. If it just put on … Read more

Gamification as a Rewards Systems (?)

June 28, 2012June 26, 2012 by Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I’ve not really been following the whole “gamification” topic over the last few years but perhaps I should have been. There are some interesting things happening in the space right now. John Dodge points to the use of a gamification program at Fedex called the “Fedex Badge”. … Read more

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. Eric currently runs his own consulting practice focused on helping organizations use their data more efficiently when combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). 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.

Eric is also a semi-professional photographer and enjoys taking photographs when he can.