Data Oriented Thinking - ESSEC | Centrale Supélec

DOT ESSEC-CentraleSupélec (DOT for ‘Data Oriented Thinking’) is a student-led association between ESSEC Business School and CentraleSupélec – Unversité Paris Saclay. This is the first association of its kind to bridge the two schools. The objective of DOT is to allow students from all backgrounds at ESSEC and CentraleSupélec to gain a thorough understanding of the domain of data and its different applications. As our world revolves increasingly around data collection, mining, predictions, and interpretations, it is essential for leaders of tomorrow to fully grasp data-oriented thinking. Indeed, outside the context of specific teachings such as the Data Sciences & Business Analytics programme, we have seen that this theme is often viewed as a distant subject and reserved for certain fields of study. We, therefore, want to democratize the "hard" and "soft" skills that define this discipline to any interested student. This association wants to focus on this mix of know-how to apply it to problems that companies, institutions, or non-governmental organizations may encounter. Students will learn from diverse sources of information: student-led workshops, masterclasses organized by companies, conferences from institutions, and much more. Through DOT, we wish to provide not only the basics to advanced theoretical knowledge on data science and analytics but also show the numerous practical uses of their realm (business, environmental, societal, health...). We also wish to formulate the forthcoming problematics of a data-driven world (biases, fake news, energy consumption, health crisis impact...).