The subject of data science is the design of automated methods to analyze massive and complex data to extract useful information.

Data science projects require expertise from a wide range of scientific fields ranging from methods research (statistics, signal processing, machine learning, data mining, data visualization) to mastering the scientific field of from where the data comes from, to building and maintaining software.

L'Université Paris-Saclay est l'une des plus grandes structures de recherche au monde, il n'est donc pas surprenant qu'elle possède également l'une des plus grandes concentrations de data scientists dans la recherche publique.