Extracting knowledge from heterogeneous data by a process that uses scientific methods, algorithms, statistics, and other systems to exploit and make sense of datasets and statistics to analyze data. Data science is an interdisciplinary science that uses scientific methods, algorithms, statistics, processes, and other systems to exploit and make sense of datasets.

Combining quantitative approaches as data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques such as machine learning and deep learning, whit qualitative and social science approaches as design thinking and sociological approaches. This concern the use or not of technology-based solutions for water, energy, healthcare and art services.

Mycle Schneider took up this definition of citizen science: "Citizen science can be defined as the participatory and combined effort of research, analysis, and public education that strictly pursues, as a basic principle, the goal of collective well-being of present and future generations of beings: humans on the planet and the biosphere."