Our Mission

DOT ESSEC-CentraleSupélec (DOT for ‘Data Oriented Thinking’) aims 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 tomorrow's leaders to grasp data-oriented thinking fully.

Indeed, outside the context of specific teachings, we have seen that this theme is often viewed as a distant subject and reserved for certain study fields.

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 organisations may encounter.

Students will learn from diverse sources of information: student-led workshops,

masterclasses organised by companies, conferences from institutions and much

more.

Through DOT, we wish to provide the basics to advanced theoretical knowledge on data science and analytics and show the numerous practical usage 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...).