"This is a pragmatic solution," said David Farber, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon who was one of the pioneers of data networking technology.
This is what, for example, inspired one of the pioneers of data art, Aaron Koblin, with Flight Patterns (2009), a data art classic visualizing air traffic, a material representation of worldwide communication.
An early pioneer of using data science to manage culture, it even launched a $1m competition for teams of researchers to improve its algorithms – and then, despite the prize money, didn't implement any changes as they weren't seen as good enough.
Consider a company like Qualcomm, a pioneer of wireless data technology.
The film is about the pioneering use of data analysis in baseball and the issues and controversy that surrounded it.
While the Oakland As never won the World Series, what they did on their budget and through their pioneering use of data arguably changed baseball forever (and other sports as well) and I think the same revolution is taking place in education and it is for the better.
SAS Institute, the world's largest private software company, has built its lucrative business by being the pioneer of sophisticated data-analysis tools.
"He was a pioneer in terms of data analysis and statistical analysis," Mr. Hart said.
Russian geologists and geographers pioneered the collection of data.
In the 1950s Charles Reep, an RAF officer and accountant, pioneered the idea of data capture in sport.
