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Surely hedge funds and other financial trading efforts have been doing data science since long before it was called data science.
by gjm11 12y ago
Surely hedge funds and other financial trading efforts have been doing data science since long before it was called data science.
- barce 12y agoBy at least a few centuries. I found this tidbit on candlestick charts in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homma_Munehisa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homma_Munehisa It turns out that sort of chart was invented in the 18th century.
- cymetica 12y agoOr knowledge discovery, data mining, data analytics I suppose.
- collyw 12y agoYes, was it not "data warehousing", "data mining", or "stats" before?
- xasos 12y agoThe term "data science" was coined fairly recently by Jeff Hammerbacher (Cloudera) and DJ Patil (White House) [1] [1] http://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmm45emkh/2-jeff-hammerbacher-chief-scientist-cloudera-and-dj-patil-entrepreneur-in-residence-greylock-ventures/ http://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmm45emkh/2-jeff-hammerbacher...