History of Data Mining by Raymond Li
http://rayli.net/blog/data/history-of-data-mining/

Data mining is everywhere, but its story starts many years before Moneyball and Edward Snowden. The following by Raymond Li are major milestones and “firsts” in the history of data mining plus how it’s evolved and blended with data science and big data. Data mining is the computational process of exploring and uncovering patterns in large data sets a.k.a. Big Data. It’s a subfield of computer science which blends many techniques from statistics, data science, database theory and machine learning. This has been added to Data mining Resources Subject Tracer™ .