The focus of the Lab is to bridge the gap from academia society and industry and allow students and researchers to work on real-world Data with cutting-edge methodologies. DSS wish to explore the limits of data science for knowing and engaging with social life.  
Keeping a strong hands-on approach, the DSS space will emerge from the convergence of existing or future research in the areas of: Data-mining, Machine Learning, Network analysis, Natural Language Processing, Digital Social Science, Data visualization and Visual analytics