Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 11, 2019

I call this one “On the way to Zion” Captured with Canon 5D and Canon 17-40 handheld on the way into Zion National Park. [phototext]   Purchase a copy for your wall. While in Zion a few years ago, I stopped by the side of the road to grab a quick snapshot. I didn’t do anything with this at the time but now looking back at it, I really like it.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 15, 2019

In a post titled  Data Mining – A Cautionary Tale , I share the idea that data mining can be dangerous by sharing the story of Cornell’s Brian Wansink, who has had multiple papers retracted due to various data mining methods that aren’t quite ethical (or even correct). Recently, Gary Smith over at Wired wrote an article called The Exaggerated Promise of so-called Unbiased Data Mining with another good example of the danger of data mining.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 18, 2019

Late last year I had the opportunity to spend a week in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP).  Strangely, I’d never actually been to RMNP although I’ve been just about everywhere else around RMNP. The trip was part of a trip to nearby Denver for a conference so I didn’t get as much time to spend in the park and surrounding areas as I’d wanted to, but I did spend every morning in the park for sunrise – and loved every second that I had there.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 23, 2019

I’ve recently written about the risks of machine learning (ML) , but with this post I wanted to take a step back and talk about ML and general. I want to talk about the ‘why’ of machine learning and whether you and/or your company should be investigating machine learning.  Do you need machine learning?  Maybe. Maybe not.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 25, 2019

Pika Rocky Mountain National Park While in Rocky Mountain National Park last year, I stumbled upon an area perfect for Pikas. I sat myself down next to some rocks and waited. After about 15 minutes I started hearing the ‘squeeks’ that you’d hear from these cute little animals. Quickly thereafter, I started seeing the scurrying around and spend about an hour grabbing photos of them.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 5, 2019

Recently, I spent a week at the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. While visiting, I stayed in Tusayan Arizona, just a few miles outside the park’s entrance. When I visit places like this, I don’t have high expectations when it comes to dining. I’m not a food-a-phile (or whatever you call them) but I do like good food and I like to have a selection of choices, especially since I’ve recently been trying to eat cleaner in recent months.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 19, 2019

How many times have you followed a recipe while cooking something in the kitchen and had the result turn out not to be quite what you expected?     If you’re like me, more times than not. Sure, the result is edible (usually) but isn’t quite what you expected or what was described in the recipe.    Recipes don’t always work.

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 19, 2019

I’m sure we’ve all been there. We have 100 things to do and we pick 90 things to get done and avoid those last few items that we just don’t want to do. They are on our ‘to-do’ list for a reason. We put them there…or more likely…someone put them there for us. But, they’re there and they should probably get done.

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 21, 2019

In February I had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.   When I was younger, I’d been a few times but I’d never been out since I got into photography. The trip was more of a scouting trip than anything, but I can say my scouting turned into a number of fantastic images. A sampling of these images are below.

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Eric D. Brown

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I recently had a customer service interaction with a SaaS service provider that left me wanting. With this provider, we had an issue that was effecting our ability to use their programming API to provide services to our clients at SentimenTrader. The issue wasn’t one that caused us any real heartburn and wasn’t a mission critical application, but this API failing caused a little bit of embarrassment (at least to me personally) because we couldn’t deliver the best service we

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I know — Are you eating your brain? — is a strange title…but stick with me here. I’m listening to an audiobook titled Understanding Complexity by Scott Pag e and heard an interesting bit of trivia about a marine animal called the Sea Squirt. What’s interesting about the sea squirt is the following : …almost as soon as it stops moving, its brain is absorbed by its body.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Grand Canyon Majesty — If you’ve never seen a sunset (or sunrise) over the grand canyon, you are missing out. This image is from my most recent trip on a workshop with  @don_smith_photography  and  @garyhartphoto  to the canyon to chase storms and lightning. One evening when no storms were around, I decided to set up for a sunset shoot and found this little gem of a location.

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 9, 2020

It seems like people are always looking for the ‘next big thing.’ They want that ‘big’ thing to get the ‘big’ improvement for themselves or their organizations.   They’re looking something that takes them from A to Z without the effort to get to B, C, D, etc. Chasing that big idea can easily push yourself / your organization into a lull.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 5, 2024

Introduction In an era where technology continuously reshapes business foundations, artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as a tool and a transformative force, redefining how organizations operate, compete, and innovate. As an executive —whether you’re a manager or the CEO —understanding AI’s role is not just important; it’s a matter of survival.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 20, 2024

Introduction In the digital transformation era, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is a beacon of change (although some would say a harbinger of doom), illuminating a future where technology and human ingenuity intersect in unprecedented ways. For leaders at the helm of organizations—CxOs such as CEOs, COOs, CFOs, and CIOs—the rise of AI is not just a technological trend to observe but a pivotal force reshaping the essence of strategic leadership and decision-making.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 20, 2024

Introduction In the digital transformation era, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) is a beacon of change (although some would say a harbinger of doom), illuminating a future where technology and human ingenuity intersect in unprecedented ways. For leaders at the helm of organizations—CxOs such as CEOs, COOs, CFOs, and CIOs—the rise of AI is not just a technological trend to observe but a pivotal force reshaping the essence of strategic leadership and decision-making.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 5, 2024

Introduction In an era where technology continuously reshapes business foundations, artificial intelligence (AI) emerges as a tool and a transformative force, redefining how organizations operate, compete, and innovate. As an executive —whether you’re a manager or the CEO —understanding AI’s role is not just important; it’s a matter of survival.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I know — Are you eating your brain? — is a strange title…but stick with me here. I’m listening to an audiobook titled Understanding Complexity by Scott Pag e and heard an interesting bit of trivia about a marine animal called the Sea Squirt. What’s interesting about the sea squirt is the following : …almost as soon as it stops moving, its brain is absorbed by its body.

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Eric D. Brown

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I recently had a customer service interaction with a SaaS service provider that left me wanting. With this provider, we had an issue that was effecting our ability to use their programming API to provide services to our clients at SentimenTrader. The issue wasn’t one that caused us any real heartburn and wasn’t a mission critical application, but this API failing caused a little bit of embarrassment (at least to me personally) because we couldn’t deliver the best service we cou

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 21, 2019

In February I had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. When I was younger, I’d been a few times but I’d never been out since I got into photography. The trip was more of a scouting trip than anything, but I can say my scouting turned into a number of fantastic images. A sampling of these images are below.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 19, 2019

How many times have you followed a recipe while cooking something in the kitchen and had the result turn out not to be quite what you expected? If you’re like me, more times than not. Sure, the result is edible (usually) but isn’t quite what you expected or what was described in the recipe. Recipes don’t always work. Recipe’s are great starting points for cooking great food, but a good cook will tweak that recipe to create something that is perfect for them / their

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 18, 2019

Late last year I had the opportunity to spend a week in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP). Strangely, I’d never actually been to RMNP although I’ve been just about everywhere else around RMNP. The trip was part of a trip to nearby Denver for a conference so I didn’t get as much time to spend in the park and surrounding areas as I’d wanted to, but I did spend every morning in the park for sunrise – and loved every second that I had there.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 15, 2019

In a post titled Data Mining – A Cautionary Tale , I share the idea that data mining can be dangerous by sharing the story of Cornell’s Brian Wansink, who has had multiple papers retracted due to various data mining methods that aren’t quite ethical (or even correct). Recently, Gary Smith over at Wired wrote an article called The Exaggerated Promise of so-called Unbiased Data Mining with another good example of the danger of data mining.

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Eric D. Brown

JANUARY 7, 2019

Want to be a data science rockstar? of course you do! Sorry for the clickbait headline, but I wanted to reach as many people as I can with this important piece of information. Want to know what the ‘one skill’ is? It isn’t python or R or Spark or some other new technology or platform. It isn’t the latest machine learning methods or algorithms.

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Eric D. Brown

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Sunrise over Sprague Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park Colorado. Made with Sony A7rIII and Sony 16-35 2.8 GM Lens. Click the photo to be taken to a larger version on 500px. See more photos in my 500px portfolio. If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by purchasing a copy for your wall and/or visiting Amazon (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.

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Eric D. Brown

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What would you do if you had so much data about your customers that you know could know (almost) everything about your customer when they contacted you? Better yet, what if you had the ability to instantly know the exact offer for service or product that would pitch the right ‘sales’ approach that your customer would immediately sit up, take notice and spend money?

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Eric D. Brown

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

According to some estimates, data scientists spend as much as 80% of their time getting data in a format that can be used. As a practicing data scientist, I’d say that is a fairly accurate estimate in many organizations. In the more sophisticated organizations that have implemented proper data integration and management systems, the amount of time spent sifting through and cleaning data is much lower and, in my experience, more in line with the numbers reported in the 2017 Data Scientist Report

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I have a little secret for everyone in the world of marketing: You have too many choices. There are way too many technology platforms in existence today. Too many ‘tools’ and too many products. You have too many choices when it comes to getting your work done. Let’s take a quick second to glance at Scott Brinker’s MarTech 5000 landscape: I’m sorry, but that’s just too many choices; especially when put in the hands of people that don’t really understand

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Sunrise over Sprague Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. Made with Sony A7rIII and Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM Lens. Click the photo to be taken to a larger version on 500px. See more photos in my 500px portfolio. If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by purchasing a copy for your wall and/or visiting Amazon (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I recently spent a (way too short) week in Rocky Mountain National Park. Luckily while there, I was able to make it out every morning to try to get some good sunrise / early morning photographs. Made with Sony A7rIII and Sony 16-35 2.8 GM Lens. Click the photo to be taken to a larger version on 500px. See more photos in my 500px portfolio. If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by purchasing a copy for your wall and/or visiting Amazon (affiliate link) to purchase

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Eric D. Brown

AUGUST 9, 2018

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 even hope to be digitally mature, you must reach data maturity.

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 13, 2018

A capture from the Tulsa Zoo’s Eagle exhibit. The eagle’s in this exhibit are all injured and unable to care for themselves. Made with Sony A7rIII and Sony 100-400 FE G Master lens. Click the photo to be taken to a larger version on 500px. See more photos in my 500px portfolio. If you like my photography , feel free to support my addiction habit by purchasing a copy for your wall and/or visiting Amazon (affiliate link) to purchase new or used photographic gear.

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 10, 2018

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 risk into the “Lack of model variability” bucket, it probably deserves to be in a bucket all its own or, at the very least, it needs to be discussed.

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Eric D. Brown

JULY 6, 2018

I’ve always wanted to get a photography like this (a road leading off into the distance). This isn’t quite what I had in mind, but its close. Captured in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge near Lawton OK. Made with Sony A7rIII and Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM Lens. Click the photo to be taken to a larger version on 500px. See more photos in my 500px portfolio.

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Eric D. Brown

JUNE 22, 2018

Earlier this year, I made a trip out to Sedona Arizona. I hadn’t been out there before and didn’t have a lot of time to spend in the field with my camera, but I made a few good photographs. Here’s one of them. Sedona Arizona Buttes. Made with Sony A7rIII and Sony 100-400 FE G Master lens. Click the photo to be taken to a larger version on 500px.

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Eric D. Brown

MAY 15, 2018

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 local window company warned me of the dangers of old windows and the costs associated with them (higher energy costs, etc etc).

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Eric D. Brown

MAY 7, 2018

Everyone’s talking about machine learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) these days. If you are a CxO or work in IT or marketing, I’d bet that you hear these terms more than you probably want to. It feels an awful lot like the early data of Big Data or Business Intelligence or the days when the “Intranet” was first making waves within organizations.

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