Opportunities and Risks for Data Science in Organizations: Banking, Finance, and Policy - Special Session Overview

In this paper, the DSAA 2018 special session "Opportunities and Risks for Data Science in Organizations: Banking, Finance, and Policy" is presented. This session is focused on discussing how banking and finance organizations can benefit from the huge amount of data they own and continue to gather. Moreover, the session aims at identifying and exploring the challenges of applying data science to financial policy questions. It is also planned to promote a special issue of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality on the workshop topics.