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Evolution of Data Science: From the 1990s to the Age of Generative AI

Early Beginnings of Data Science and Industry Growth

Data science, as a formal term, didn't even exist in the 1990s, but the foundational concepts behind it—like neural networks and decision trees—were already discussed in academic literature of the 1980s and 1990s. In those early days, the industry was slow to adopt these techniques, primarily due to the high costs associated with compute power and data storage.