Special session on trends & controversies in data science (TCDS)

As an emerging area, data science is facing great opportunities as well as challenges. Often arguments exist: What is data science? Why data science? We have information science already, why do we need data science? Do we need analytics science? Is analytics new? What is the difference between statistics and data analytics? What makes a data scientist? We believe that a special session on Trends and Controversy about data science and advanced analytics could bring insights from different mindsets for the healthy development of the science and society. Accordingly, this T&C special session will host talks by invitation to outline different views about today and future of data science. Invited speakers can contribute a paper (in the same format as the main conference submissions but could be less than 10 pages) to the special session, which will be handled by program co-chairs and accepted into the main conference proceeding probably by addressing comments from the program cochairs.