Eric Berlow

Eric L. Berlow is an American ecologist and data scientist. He co-founded a visual data interface company, which was acquired by Rakuten Inc.^[1] in 2016. He now runs Vibrant Data Labs,^[2] a social impact data science group currently focused the building on an open-source framework for tracking the flows of money to climate mitigation and resilience efforts on the ground.^[3] Prior to Vibrant Data Labs, Berlow was the founding director of the University of California's first science and education institute inside Yosemite National Park which facilitated efforts to leverage data for informing conservation policy and natural resource management. Berlow is internationally recognized for his research on ecological complexity, with articles in Nature,^[4] Science,^[5] and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.^[6][7] He is best known for his TED talks on simplifying complexity and finding hidden patterns in complex data.^[8][9][10] Berlow has received a TED Fellowship, a TED Senior Fellowship, an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship, and a National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Fellowship.^[11] He was named one of the top 100 Creatives by Origin magazine.^[12]