Category Archives: Data Science History
The Big Data Meme: 5 Scenarios for IT
In today’s New York Times, Steve Lohr surveys the rise of big data as a term and as a marketing tool, from “the confines of technology” to the mainstream. “The Big Data story is the making of a meme,” says … Continue reading
A Very Short History of Data Science
I’m in the process of researching the origin and evolution of data science as a discipline and a profession. Here are the milestones that I have picked up so far, tracking the evolution of the term “data science,” attempts to … Continue reading
5 Origins of Data Science
Source: Impact of Big Data on Analytics
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History of Data Science (Infographic)
Source: Capgemini
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A Statistician’s View on Big Data and Data Science in Pharmaceutical Development
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Big Data and Statisticians, Revisited (Video)
[vimeo 91502942 w=500 h=257] Data Science, Big Data and Statistics – can we all live together? from Chalmers Internal on Vimeo. Terry Speed on how (and a bit on why) statisticians have been left out of the big data movement. … Continue reading
John Quincy Adams: An Early Data Scientist?
“Weights and measures may be ranked among the necessaries of life to every individual of human society. They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. They are necessary to every occupation of human industry; to the … Continue reading
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Big Data & Data Science: What Does a Data Scientist Do?
[slideshare id=16190193&w=427&h=356&sc=no] Big Data [sorry] & Data Science: What Does a Data Scientist Do? from Data Science London
The First Data Scientist on the Evolution of Data Science and the Ever-Changing American Voter
Norman Nie was not surprised by the accurate predictions of the presidential elections’ results from Nate Silver and others. “A lot of it,” he told me recently, “is good statistics and good science and good statistical programming packages.” The increasing … Continue reading
Data Scientists: The Definition of Sexy
I put “sexy” in the title because I’m told that the words in the title make all the difference in getting noticed on the Web. That has certainly proven true for the Harvard Business Review after it included the word “sexiest” in the title … Continue reading