Big Research Data and Data Science – Papers in Data Science Journal

Selected papers from the 1st Scientific Data Conference – Scientific Research Big Data and Data Science, which was held in Beijing, China on 24–25 February 2014 were published in the Data Science Journal.  See in particular, the Editorial Content ‘Big Research Data and Data Science’ by Li Jianhui, Secretary General of CODATA China.

This collection of the Data Science Journal brings together the papers presented at this conference, providing insight into the current state of the art in China for data. The papers were selected and reviewed by the conference organizers as a fitting and representative collection of the discussions and insights presented at the conference.

The selected papers consist of research work in three categories: 1) common technologies in data science, 2) data science research and 3) applications of data science in different domains.