History | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/history/ Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:10:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png History | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/history/ 32 32 What Can the History of Data Tell Us About the Future of AI? https://towardsdatascience.com/a-brief-recent-history-of-data/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:10:24 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606585 A 40-Year Look at Data, Business Models, and the Forces Shaping Intelligent Systems

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]]> The Cultural Impact of AI Generated Content: Part 1 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-cultural-impact-of-ai-generated-content-part-1-6e6a8a51800f/ Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:36:15 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-cultural-impact-of-ai-generated-content-part-1-6e6a8a51800f/ What happens when AI generated media becomes ubiquitous in our lives? How does this relate to what we've experienced before, and how does...

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]]> What Exactly Is An Algorithm? Turing Machines Explained https://towardsdatascience.com/what-exactly-is-an-algorithm-turing-machines-explained-76a32fe71a37/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:35:18 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/what-exactly-is-an-algorithm-turing-machines-explained-76a32fe71a37/ A Simple Guide to Turing Machines, How They Came To Be, and How They Helped Us Define What An Algorithm Is

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]]> Hidden Patterns in Street Names [Part 2] https://towardsdatascience.com/hidden-patterns-in-street-names-part-2-4ae9af5fdee3/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 21:17:58 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/hidden-patterns-in-street-names-part-2-4ae9af5fdee3/ Analyzing street names according to historical periods and occupations!

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]]> An NLP Movie History https://towardsdatascience.com/an-nlp-movie-history-44487ec0144f/ Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:40:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/an-nlp-movie-history-44487ec0144f/ Plotting the ebbs and flows of cinema trends

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]]> Alliterative Affinities: Do Parents Select First Names to Match Surnames? https://towardsdatascience.com/alliterative-affinities-do-parents-select-first-names-to-match-surnames-574c04528ec1/ Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:44:39 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/alliterative-affinities-do-parents-select-first-names-to-match-surnames-574c04528ec1/ What's in a name? For many parents, everything. Consider the widespread popularity of baby name books, with dizzying titles like 100,000+...

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]]> The AI Wars: lessons from the conflict that paralyzed the field https://towardsdatascience.com/the-ai-wars-lessons-from-the-conflict-that-paralyzed-the-field-7344666c7875/ Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:06:39 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-ai-wars-lessons-from-the-conflict-that-paralyzed-the-field-7344666c7875/ The story behind a conflict that shaped the development and research of the Artificial Intelligence field.

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]]> Want to know how the first truly successful AI system is being revived? https://towardsdatascience.com/want-to-know-how-the-first-truly-successful-ai-system-is-being-revived-ef061eacde7b/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 01:04:24 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/want-to-know-how-the-first-truly-successful-ai-system-is-being-revived-ef061eacde7b/ And how not to mess it up...

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]]> Grimm’s Tales Topic Analysis via LDA: Why some Tales are Famous https://towardsdatascience.com/grimms-tales-topic-analysis-via-lda-why-some-tales-are-famous-163ee90013b5/ Sun, 22 Nov 2020 18:31:44 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/grimms-tales-topic-analysis-via-lda-why-some-tales-are-famous-163ee90013b5/ Topic prediction study on the old tales

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]]> If history repeats itself, Fourier Transform is a key https://towardsdatascience.com/if-history-repeats-itself-fourier-transform-is-a-key-a593ddfa246e/ Sun, 15 Nov 2020 23:08:55 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/if-history-repeats-itself-fourier-transform-is-a-key-a593ddfa246e/ One of the sentences that my professor used to say in high school was that "History repeats itself" . The sense of this sentence is obviously related to the fact that we should learn from history, thus being able not to do the same mistakes that we have done in the past. Now let’s talk […]

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]]> From Cartography to Digital Mapping: Do you know the truth? https://towardsdatascience.com/from-cartography-to-digital-mapping-do-you-know-the-truth-c1440bb193dc/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 14:52:15 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/from-cartography-to-digital-mapping-do-you-know-the-truth-c1440bb193dc/ An online exhibition reflects on how the history of persuasive cartography can teach us to spot biases in visual data

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]]> How Bayes’ theorem helped win the second world war https://towardsdatascience.com/how-bayes-theorem-helped-win-the-second-world-war-7f3be5f4676c/ Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:08:15 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-bayes-theorem-helped-win-the-second-world-war-7f3be5f4676c/ Part I: Introduction to Bayesian statistics and how it cracked the Japaneses naval cipher JN 25

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]]> Analysis of Presidential Speeches throughout American History https://towardsdatascience.com/analysis-of-presidential-speeches-throughout-american-history-bb088d36d7dd/ Mon, 31 Aug 2020 20:15:54 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/analysis-of-presidential-speeches-throughout-american-history-bb088d36d7dd/ Natural Language Processing intrigued me from the beginning. I first heard about it at a presentation of an author predictor based on word...

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