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| Oct 5, 2019 at 15:31 | comment | added | Rodrigo de Azevedo | By the way, this expository article may complement your answer nicely. | |
| Oct 5, 2019 at 15:24 | comment | added | Rodrigo de Azevedo | Thank you for taking the time to provide such a detailed reply. Indeed, a field can exist before it has an official name. My (hairsplitter) argument was that Zomorodian may have viewed his work as topological data analysis, not as data science. Apparently, "analysis" was not authoritative enough. Or, perhaps, data science is a superset of data analysis. | |
| Oct 5, 2019 at 15:14 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @RodrigodeAzevedo : My understanding is that Zomorodian was motivated by computational questions in topology, which I consider to fall under the umbrella of "data science". It may be anachronistic to say that people were working on data science before the term "data science" was in vogue, but that doesn't bother me much. As an analogy, I'm happy to say that people were studying "linear algebra" in the 19th century (and perhaps even earlier) even if they didn't use that term at the time. | |
| Oct 5, 2019 at 13:14 | comment | added | Rodrigo de Azevedo | If I may split hairs, was it really "motivated by data science"? Afra Zomorodian was working on persistent homology years before PR people popularized the term "data science". | |
| Oct 3, 2019 at 11:58 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Oct 2, 2019 at 20:42 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |