Data Science as a practice is not anything new. There has always been practitioners of statistics, math, prediction, and so on. What is new is the merging of

Data Science as a practice is not anything new. There has always been practitioners of statistics, math, prediction, and so on. What is new is the merging of technologies that harnesses the large amounts/kinds/disparities of data that is being stored and processing it into useful information to drive decisions for an organization. Thus a term was coined "Data Science".