The document provides a timeline of major events in the evolution of analytics from pre-2005 to 2015. Some of the key developments include the coining of terms like "data science" and "big data" in the late 1990s, the creation of Hadoop in 2005, major companies and technologies being founded or released between 2005-2009 laying the groundwork for analytics, rapid growth and adoption from 2010-2014 including predictive analytics uses in politics, widespread cloud and mobile analytics, and the rise of machine learning.