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by fnl 3111 days ago
Um, no, that's yet another falsehood in that interview; The term DS is much older, and stems from Peter Naur, anecdotally coined in the 1960s and with a provable [edit: removed wrong ref] paper in 1974 using that term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science
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Interestingly, Tukey's (of fast Fourier fame) paper, "The future of Data Analysis" [1], was published circa 1961.

[1]: https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aoms/1177704...