The Field of Data Science Continues to Change the World for the Better - Big Data Analytics News

Sci-fi novels and television shows predicted the invention of self-driving cars, robot butlers, and self-lacing shoes, but without data science, these products would remain fiction. But data science is capable of much more than that. Data science began in the 1960s as a branch of computer science, but the term "data scientist" wasn't coined until the late 2000s. Since the 1990s, data scientists have been collecting user data, but it wasn't until the early 2010s that it was used to make sales and new technology. Applications that collect and analyze data rely on statistics and statistical models to create outcomes.