Did you know that the concept of Regression was invented almost 2 centuries ago ?
Neither did I, until I decided to step into the glorious history of analytics. Yes! some of the concepts which we use today were invented centuries ago. In my journey of looking at the past, I came across people who were true genius. Their innate desire to share knowledge and challenge concepts has shaped the future for rest of the world.
After reading their life stories, there is one thing I found common in all these souls. That is, all these people were driven by the power of questioning. i.e. they never settled with that they had. Instead, they showed interested in knowing ‘why does something happen as it happen?’ Probably, this intense curiosity made them invent things.
I’ve listed these 16 genius minds whose inventions hold immense importance in the 21st century. Be it Python, R, SQL or Hadoop, their inventions has given livelihood / jobs to million of people around the world. If you are inspired by their work, may be you can send them a tweet if they exist.
Note: This isn’t an exhaustive list. If you’ve been inspired by the great work of other people, please share about them in comments.
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How nice that such geniuses gave freely their work, developed after years of struggle and hard work, a special thanks to them
Very good article to read on a Monday morning. Cheers !
Thanks Sudheer. I too enjoyed creating it. :)
Great post! Good to know who invented/introduced what, Thanks
Welcome :)
The 17th genius mind created the url below Analytics Vidhya
Very good indeed. We need to salute these guys often. Some more imp names are conspicuously missing. For eg: Vladimir Vapnik for SVM; Lotfi Zadeh for Fuzzy Logic; Holland for GA; Matei Zaharia for Spark; Rakesh Agarwal and Srikant for Apriori algo; MacQueen for K-Means algo; Quinlan for ID3; Breiman et al for CART and Hinto et al for Deep Learning etc.
Thanks for sharing useful information.
Thanks to all the geniuses, who have given such wonderful work to us. Thanks Manish for the information...
No problem! :) When I read about them, I wondered what sort of divine force kept them moving forward. Truly wonderful.
Very good information thanks
Salute to these great inventors!! Nice Article Manish!!!
I guess aprt from R inventor, the RStudio developer should also be mentioned. I feel the immense adoption of R should partly be attributed to R Studio
Amazing facts !! All these genius contributions but never go waste.
What about one of the fathers of data science : and developer of the FFT : John Tukey?
Enjoyed reading it
Geniuses are Geniuses. We will always be indebted to them. It's very easy to forget them amidst our schedules. Effort from someone like you helps us slowdown, ponder and reflect upon their great inventions and struggles to keep us motivated. Great Article.!!!
Good work
Very good article...cooool...!