Data Science: Challenges and Opportunities, Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract value from data. Key responsibilities of the data scientist may include developing strategies for data collection and analysis, preparing data for analysis, exploration, image analysis, and data visualization, creating models with data using programming languages such as Python and R, and deploying models in applications, using different types of reporting tools to detect patterns, trends, and relationships in data sets..