Eric Colson

Algorithms Officer @stitchfix
VP Data Science @Netflix

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

An animated tour of Stitch Fix Algorithms.
https://t.co/Fli1LcCK1y via @stitchfix_algo #datascience #algotour

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

Find me on Bluesky:
@ecolson.bsky.social. Love all things data science, machine learning, AI, and management there of.

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

@emollick This is especially true in ML/Data projects which typically have unclear requirements that need to be revealed through trial & error. In theses cases adding an additional person can be a negative result.

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

One of my heroes. Thank you for all the contributions to knowledge

[Princeton School of Public & International Affairs @PrincetonSPIA]

Today we’ve lost a giant and a visionary: Prof. Daniel Kahneman has passed at the age of 90. The Princeton SPIA community shares our condolences with his family and all who knew him, learned from him, and loved him. https://t.co/JbTXQSuzlw

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

Working in companies shouldn't be so hard. Even when we all want the same things, we trip over bad process and unnecessary coordination. At the same time, other things can be too easy and we do things we later regret. Learn how to smartly work with friction.
The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder. By @work_matters and Huggy Rao
https://t.co/Vp0yV4bP0G

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

Must be fun to be a PhD student right now. So many adjacent possibilities surface now that foundational models are available.
Cool paper on the relationships between objects in an image.
https://t.co/z26KalBnxE
#AI #computervision

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

@work_matters To the conscientious host, the cost of moving a meeting increases exponentially with the number of times its already been moved. Therefore a meeting that gets rescheduled more than 3 times provides evidence that the host is not very conscientious.

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

I appreciate chatGPT's humility in admitting mistakes.

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

Good framing on the tradeoff between moving fast and shipping high quality code. In a data science context, I believe one needs to lean towards 'fast' in the short-term in order to learn more quickly and allay uncertainty. But, once value is found, we need refactor to achieve a robust system in the long-term to enable future learnings. Good infrastructure can shift the efficient frontier to outward.

Nice job @elijahbenizzy
https://t.co/xljYxLOwev
#datascience

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

Gorgeous visualization. Effective too. Coneys so much more than text alone. NYTimes always does a nice job.
https://t.co/S24TtnIYrt

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

Great article featuring @work_matters and @huggyrao on "addition sickness": the unnecessary rules, procedures, communications, tools, and roles that seem to inexorably grow, stifling productivity and
creativity.

[Stanford d.school @stanforddschool]

Our friends Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao—two professors who have been working with the https://t.co/kTSgUDPFaR from the start—share their work with @HarvardBiz.

https://t.co/nGvWCcpJw9

@work_matters @huggyrao @StanfordGSB

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

@QRich @ShaneBattier @PlayersTribune Well played. Great outcome

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

So many companies say they are okay with failure but they still behave in ways which discourages risk-taking and innovation. In @AmyCEdmondson new book she articulates the different types of failures which gives us with the vocabulary to adjust and embrace the right kind of wrong.

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

Very general statement: I am not a fan of using aggregated data for decision making. Most business decisions require good statistics to control for confounders and slow our ability to confirm our biases (and an RCT is best when possible). Self service analytics is best for monitoring.

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

RIP Netflix DVD. A long run.

[Netflix @netflix]

Netflix has shipped 5.2 billion DVDs over the last 25 years — here's a timeline of the most rented movies throughout those years.

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

@flowingdata Would love it if you also posted to threads. Would love to follow you there instead

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

Very appreciative to @wesmckinn and so many others that help evolve this space. So many of us stand on your shoulders while focusing on the mere application of these technologies and receiving the kudos for the value they generate. Thank you!
https://t.co/Bds9BLvTP6
#datascience #machinelearning #Ai

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

@erikbryn less carful in rural areas?

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

Expressing PySpark Transformations Declaratively with Hamilton https://t.co/nGY6mk7PyM

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

Mind blown. I just realized that iPhone and MacBooks can share a copy buffer. Copy on one, paste to the other. How long has that been there?

[Eric Colson @ericcolson]

@work_matters Ugh, I bet they call themselves “data driven”. A shame. Those surveys are notoriously fickle, capturing only a narrow point in time. They also lack robustness; ask the same questions 1 week later and you will get different answers!