[gjm11]

Surely hedge funds and other financial trading efforts have been doing data science since long before it was called data science.

[barce]

By at least a few centuries. I found this tidbit on candlestick charts in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homma_Munehisa It turns out that sort of chart was invented in the 18th century.

[xasos]

The term "data science" was coined fairly recently by Jeff Hammerbacher (Cloudera) and DJ Patil (White House) [1]

[1] http://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmm45emkh/2-jeff-hammerbacher...

[cymetica]

Or knowledge discovery, data mining, data analytics I suppose.

[collyw]

Yes, was it not "data warehousing", "data mining", or "stats" before?