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Jeff Hamerbacher, the guy who coined the term Data Science, also said "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That suc
by otalp 9y ago
Jeff Hamerbacher, the guy who coined the term Data Science, also said "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.”
- fnl 9y agoUm, no, that's yet another falsehood in that interview; The term DS is much older, and stems from Peter Naur, anecdotally coined in the 1960s and with a provable [edit: removed wrong ref] paper in 1974 using that term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science
- chestervonwinch 9y agoInterestingly, Tukey's (of fast Fourier fame) paper, "The future of Data Analysis" [1], was published circa 1961. [1]: https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aoms/1177704711 https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aoms/1177704...