The story of how data scientists became sexy is mostly the story of the coupling of the mature discipline of statistics with a very young one--computer science. The term “Data Science” has ...

There’s little doubt that Hollerith’s invention was a defining moment in the history of data processing, one that symbolized the beginning of the mechanized data collecting age – Hollerith ...

As this image shows, the 1940 Census used IBM tabulating machines, but it wasn’t the first census to draw on mechanical means of data processing. The government used Pantographic punch cards for ...

Eventual's data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders' experience working on Lyft's autonomous vehicle project.

The history of data processing begins in the 1960s with centralized on-site mainframes that later evolved into distributed client servers. In the beginning of this century, centralized cloud computing ...