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2 unusual facts about Data science


Data science

On 10 November 1998, C.F. Jeff Wu gave his inaugural lecture entitled "Statistics = Data Science?" in honor of his appointment to the H. C. Carver Collegiate Professorship in Statistics at the University of Michigan.

The term "data science" (originally used interchangeably with "datalogy") has existed for over thirty years and emerged as a substitute for computer science by Peter Naur in 1960.



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C.F. Jeff Wu

Later, he presented his lecture entitled “Statistics = Data Science?” as the first of his 1998 P.C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lectures.