The Association of Data Scientists is the premier global professional body of data science & machine learning professionals Association of Data Scientists will lead in the development, dissemination and implementation of knowledge, basic and applied research and technologies in analytics, decision-making, and management. Association of Data Scientists will strive to: support efforts to extend, unify and integrate related branches of knowledge and practice; support the free interchange of information relevant to the purposed of the association; promote greater use of this knowledge by all organizations and the general public; encourage the education of students and the continuing education of practitioners in these fields of knowledge; promote high professional standards and integrity in all work done in the field Propagate standardization, introduce processes and define industry accepting common definitions.