Foundations of Data Science : A Comprehensive Overview Formed at the 1st International Symposium on the Science of Data Science

We present a summary of the 1 st International Symposium on the Sci-ence of Data Science, organized in Summer 2021 as a satellite event of the 8 th Swiss Conference on Data Science held in Lucerne, Switzerland. We discuss what establishes the scientific core of the discipline of data science by introducing the corresponding research question, providing a concise overview of relevant related prior work, followed by a summary of the individual workshop
contributions. Finally, we expand on the common views which were formed during the extensive workshop discussions.