Results of internet searching for writing a brief story of data science are listed here. The list is not complete but at least can be used as starting point for further search.

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• Sarah El Shatby, “The History of Data: From Ancient Times to Modern Day”, 365 Data Science, 15 Apr 2024, url https://365datascience.com/trending/history-of-data/ [20260226].
• Cornellius Yudha Wijaya, “How Data Science is Shaping Careers?”, Non-Brand Data, 21 Jan 2024, url https://www.nb-data.com/p/how-data-science-is-shaping-careers [20260226].
• Sandeep Natoo, “Understand The Importance Of Data Analytics And Its Future”, Mindbowser, 25 Jun 2021, url https://www.mindbowser.com/importance-of-data-analytics/ [20260226].
• Favio Vázquez, “The Roots of Data Science”, Towards Data Science – Medium, 1 Aug 2020, url https://medium.com/p/77c71115229 [20260226].
• Giuliano Liguori, “Brief history of Data Science”, Kenovy S.r.l., 29 Jun 2020, url https://kenovy.com/brief-history-of-data-science/ [20260226].
• mksaad, “Data Science Timeline”, WordPress, 20 Aug 2019, url https://mksaad.wordpress.com/2019/08/20/data-science-timeline/ [20260226].
• admin, “A Brief History of Data Science”, DatabaseTown, 14 Aug 2019, url https://databasetown.com/a-brief-history-of-data-science/ [20260226].
• Ram Thilak, “The History of Data Science”, Towards Data Science – Medium, 31 Mar 2018, url https://medium.com/p/dfe789499d50 [20260226].
• Gregory Piatetsky, “History of Data Science Infographic in 5 strands”, KDnuggets, 17 Feb 2015, url https://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/02/history-data-science-infographic.html [20260226].

journals

• S. Sanfeld, “A Brief History of Data and Data Science”, in Materials Data Science, The Materials Research Society Series, Springer, Cham, 2024, p 3-13, url https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46565-9_1 .
• Daphne R. Raban, Avishag Gordon, “The evolution of data science and big data research: A bibliometric analysis”, Scientometrics, vol 122, no, p 1563-1581, Mar 2020, url https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03371-2 .
• Mark A. Parsons, Ruth E. Duerr, Matthew B. Jones, “The History and Future of Data Citation in Practice”, Data Science Journal, vol 18, no 52, p 1-10, 1 Nov 2019, url https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-052 .
• Jennifer Priestley, Robert J. Mcgrath, “The Evolution of Data Science: A New Mode of Knowledge Production”, International Journal of Knowledge Management, vol 15, no 2, p 97-109, Apr-Jun 2019, url https://doi.org/10.4018/IJKM.2019040106 .
• David Donoho, “50 Years of Data Science”, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. vol 26, no 4, p 745-766, 1 Aug 2017, url https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2017.1384734 .
• Longbing Cao, “Data Science: A Comprehensive Overview”, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), vol 50, no 3, art 43, p 1-42, 17 Jun 2017, url https://doi.org/10.1145/3076253 .

books

• Hui Lin, Ming Li, “A Brief History of Data Science”, in Practitioner’s Guide to Data Science, 18 Apr 2023, url https://scientistcafe.com/ids/a-brief-history-of-data-science#a-brief-history-of-data-science [20260226].
• Michael Friendly, “A Brief History of Data Visualization”, in Handbook of Data Visualization, Springer Handbooks Comp.Statistics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, p 15-56, url https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33037-0_2 .

articles

• -, “The History of Data Science: 1960 to 2025”, Careerera, 24 Dec 2025, url https://www.careerera.com/blog/history-of-data-science [20260226].
• Rafael C. Alvarado, “Data Science from 1963 to 2012”, arXiv:2311.03292 [cs.GL], v4, Tue, 22 Oct 2024, url https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.03292 .
• Florian Huber, “Very short history of Data Science: Why now? (and no, is not the same as Statistics!)”, Medium, 8 Apr 2024, url https://medium.com/p/822e68027369 [20260226].
• -, “What is Data Science? History, Applications, Tools and More”, Alma Better, 28 Feb 2024, url https://www.almabetter.com/bytes/articles/what-is-data-science [20260226].
• Pratibha Kumari J., “Know About Data Science & Data Science History”, Linkedin, 18 Feb 2023, url https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/know-data-science-history-pratibha-kumari-jha [20260226].
• -, “The History Of Data Science and Pioneers You Should Know”, Office of Graduate Programs, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 10 Dec 2022, url https://wp.wpi.edu/catalyst/2022/12/10/the-history-of-data-science-and-pioneers-you-should-know/ [20260226].
• Charlie Waters, “The History of Data Science: From Cave Paintings to Big Data”, HPCwire, 27 Jul 2022, url https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2022/07/27/the-history-of-data-science-from-cave-paintings-to-big-data/ [20260226].
• Keith D. Foote, “A Brief History of Data Science”, Dataversity, 16 Oct 2021, url https://www.dataversity.net/articles/brief-history-data-science/ [20260226].
• -, “How the History of Data Science Has Led to the Demand for Data Analysts”, Woods College of Advancing Studies, Boston College, 14 May 2021, url https://appliedeconomics.bc.edu/the-history-of-data-science/ [20260226].
• Gil Press, “A Very Short History Of Data Science”, Forbes, 28 May 2013, url https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2013/05/28/a-very-short-history-of-data-science/ [20260226].

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