Affiliation:
1. Department of History, Columbia University, 514 Fayerweather Hall—MC2513, 1180 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027, mj340@columbia.edu
Abstract
In the last two decades, a highly instrumentalist form of statistical and machine learning has achieved an extraordinary success as the computational heart of the phenomenon glossed as “predictive analytics,” “data mining,” or “data science.” This instrumentalist culture of prediction emerged from subfields within applied statistics, artificial intelligence, and database management. This essay looks at representative developments within computational statistics and pattern recognition from the 1950s onward, in the United States and beyond, central to the explosion of algorithms, techniques, and epistemic values that ultimately came together in the data sciences of today. This essay is part of a special issue entitled Histories of Data and the Database edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Theodore M. Porter.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science
Cited by
21 articles.
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