The tale of data science
summary
Argues data science starts over 20,000 years ago with Shango bones (≈18,000 BC) and Sumerian tallies leading to written language, traces the abacus, Antikythera (≈200 AD), and a U.S. 1880 census that takes seven years to process; cites a mid-1900s data center holding 800 million tax returns and 170 million fingerprints, claims humans now generate ~2.5 quadrillion bytes per day and 90% of data in two years, and shows a student’s sensor experiment that uncovers late‑night foot traffic and revives a bakery. Trends: hyper‑personalization, generative models, socially aware AI, and personalized medicine.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:17What do you do for living
- 1:36History of data science
- 9:47Storytime
- 12:29The truth
- 17:18We are wired for stories
- 21:59Future trends
- 25:29generative models
