The field of Data Science has contributed to the digital revolution driven by the development of technologies for collecting and storing large amounts of data.

The PPGCO researchers that develop research in the line of Data Science have been dedicated to the investigation of new techniques or improvement of methods for:

• Bioimage analysis (Bioimage informatics)
• Medical Image Analysis
• Machine Learning applied to big data
• Big Data Visualization
• Big Databases
• Similarity Queries
• Applied Partial Differential Equations
• Indexing and Queries in Big Data
• Integration of Data Mining with DBMS
• Variational Methods and Deep Learning Applied to Images
• Variational methods and optimization techniques in machine learning
• Non-traditional Data Mining
• Digital Image Processing
• Pattern Recognition
• Information Retrieval
• Complex Networks
• Infrared Thermal Imaging
• Computer Vision
• Visual Analytics
• Scientific Visualisation
• Information Visualization
• Visualization of Complex Networks