A Brief History of Data Science

Talk at the VlbgWebDev Meetup, see https://www.meetup.com/VlbgWebDev/.

Transcript

1. A BRIEF HISTORY OF DATA SCIENCE Manuel J. A. Eugster @mjaeugster http://mjae.net
2. I am a data scientist at Avira. • Leader of the data science team I was a scientific researcher. • Probabilistic Machine Learning Group, HIIT, Aalto University, Finland (2012-2015) • Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany (2007-2012) I studied for some time. • PhD in Statistics • MSc in Computational Intelligence • BSc in Software and Information Engineering
3. A BRIEF HISTORY OF DATA SCIENCE Manuel J. A. Eugster @mjaeugster http://mjae.net
5. SO, LET’S THE JOURNEY…
7. BAYES' THEOREM 1761 Posterior How probable is a hypothesis given the observed evidence Prior How probable is a hypothesis before observing evidence Likelihood How probable is the evidence given the hypothesis Marginal How probable is the evidence under all possible hypothesis
9. NORMAL DISTRIBUTION 1808 Carl Friedrich Gauss With contributions from Pierre-Simon Laplace
10. NORMAL DISTRIBUTION 1808 Carl Friedrich Gauss With contributions from Pierre-Simon Laplace
11. BIG DATA IN 1939 TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TFL)
12. CHOLERA MAP JOHN SNOW, 1858 NAPOLEON'S MARCH CHARLES MINARD, 1868
14. STUDENT’S T-TEST 1908
15. COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE ALAN TURING, 1950
16. COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE ALAN TURING, 1950
17. PERCEPTRON FRANK ROSENBLATT, 1958
18. VS. DETECTING TANKS US ARMY, 1960s
19. AI WINTER 1970’S “At its low point, some computer scientists and software engineers avoided the term artificial intelligence for fear of being viewed as wild-eyed dreamers” – John Markoff
20. SECOND BOOM 1980’S NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 1986 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING 1980 KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES 1989
21. ML ALGORITHMS 1990’S SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES CORINNA CORTES & VLADIMIR N. VAPNIK , 1995 LONG SHORT-TERM MEMORY SEPP HOCHREITER & JÜRGEN SCHMIDHUBER , 1997 RANDOM FORESTS LEO BREIMAN & ADELE CUTLER , 2001
23. HAL VARIAN 2009
24. ALPHA GO TESLA’S SELF DRIVING CAR BOSTON DYNAMICS NOW
28. WORK HARD. HAVE FUN. MAKE HISTORY. Jeff Bezos
29. IMAGES • WHAT IS DATA SCIENCE? HTTPS://BLOGS.SAS.COM/CONTENT/SUBCONSCIOUSMUSINGS/2014/08/22/LOOKING-BACKWARDS-LOOKING-FORWARDS-SAS-DATA-MINING-AND-MACHINE- LEARNING/ • BAYES THEOREM: THE BIG BANG THEORY; HTTPS://WWW.RICHARDCARRIER.INFO/ARCHIVES/12742, HTTPS://DE.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/THOMAS_BAYES • NORMAL DISTRIBUTION: HTTPS://DE.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/NORMALVERTEILUNG, HTTP://WWW.IHVO.DE; HTTPS://WWW.DASGEHIRN.INFO/DENKEN/INTELLIGENZ/INTELLIGENZ-ZAHLEN • JOHN SNOWS CHOLERA MAP: HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/1854_BROAD_STREET_CHOLERA_OUTBREAK • NAPOLEON MAP: HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/CHARLES_JOSEPH_MINARD • T-TEST: HTTPS://WWW.GUINNESS.COM/MEDIA/1585/PDP_1440X900__0001_GUINNESS_DRAUGHT_SPRITZ2_BOTTLE.PNG, HTTPS://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/AJC1/9398759025, HTTPS://THATSMATHS.COM/2014/05/01/THE-FARADAY-OF-STATISTICS/ • PERCEPTRON: HTTPS://WWW.DOC.IC.AC.UK/~ND/SURPRISE_96/JOURNAL/VOL4/CS11/REPORT.PERCEPTRON.JPG • AI WINTER: HTTP://WWW.FOTOCOMMUNITY.DE/PHOTO/WINTERLANDSCHAFT-03-SW-THOMAS-FINKLER/35419515 • NOW: HTTPS://MEDIUM.COM/UDACITY/DEEP-LEARNING-NANODEGREE-FOUNDATION-PROGRAM-SYLLABUS-IN-DEPTH-2EB19D014533, HTTPS://ELECTREK.CO/2016/12/21/TESLA-AUTOPILOT- VISION-NEURAL-NET-DATA-ELON-MUSK/ • HTTPS://WWW.DOMO.COM/LEARN/DATA-NEVER-SLEEPS-5
30. REFERENCES • TIMELINE OF STATISTICS: HTTP://WWW.STATSLIFE.ORG.UK/IMAGES/PDF/TIMELINE-OF-STATISTICS.PDF • HTTPS://WWW.FORBES.COM/SITES/GILPRESS/2013/05/28/A-VERY-SHORT-HISTORY-OF-DATA-SCIENCE/#65F671CF55CF • HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/TIMELINE_OF_MACHINE_LEARNING • HTTPS://EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/TIMELINE_OF_ARTIFICIAL_INTELLIGENCE