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Re:Less Noise but More Money in Data Science by gjm11 on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @06:35PM (#9455501)
Surely hedge funds and other financial trading efforts have been doing data science since long before it was called data science.
Re:Less Noise but More Money in Data Science by barce on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @07:23PM (#9455700)
By at least a few centuries. I found this tidbit on candlestick charts in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homma_Munehisa It turns out that sort of chart was invented in the 18th century.
Re:Less Noise but More Money in Data Science by xasos on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @10:05AM (#9458297)
The 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...

Re:Less Noise but More Money in Data Science by cymetica on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @07:25PM (#9455705)
Or knowledge discovery, data mining, data analytics I suppose.
Re:Less Noise but More Money in Data Science by collyw on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:35AM (#9457054)
Yes, was it not "data warehousing", "data mining", or "stats" before?