Due to the unprecedented growth of data during the lasts years, Data Science has become one of the critical disciplines of the 21th century.

Although we have the tools to store and access huge amounts of information, the extraction of useful knowledge and its translation to optimized decisions is still a challenge that needs from a new generation of professionals that have been called Data Scientists.

Data Science can be applied to a large set of application areas including predictive health analytics, business analytics, social science research, data-based journalism, advertising and marketing, intelligent transport, smart cities, education, retail and creative industries, public policies, etc.