A Brief History of Data Science

“Statistics, Data Analysis, and Coding converge to form a new career for the 21st century” from Daniel Capellupo, PhD

Original Blog Post: A Brief History of Data Science
Authors: Daniel Capellupo, PhD
Published: 2020-11-17

My summary:

This is one of the few posts on this website that is from myself, the head curator.

This post goes through the history of data science, from the beginnings of statistics centuries ago, through today, where:

Statistics, Data Analysis, and Coding converge to form a new career for the 21st century

While many of the elements of data science have been around for a long time (even the idea of machine learning, AI, and the perceptron date back to the 1950s), the profession of data science / data scientist seems to have emerged around 2008.

Here is the link again to their blog post for more details: A Brief History of Data Science