International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) started in 2014 aiming to be a flagship in the data science and analytics field. It provides a premier forum that brings together researchers, industry practitioners, as well as potential users of data science and big data analytics. It covers all data science and analytics related areas, including statistical, probabilistic and mathematical methods, machine learning, data and business analytics, data mining and knowledge discovery, infrastructure, storage, retrieval and search, privacy and security, and relevant applications, practices, tools and evaluation. DSAA’2014 was not a fully IEEE supported conference, but was technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) and ACM through SIGKDD. DSAA became a fully IEEE CIS supported conference from the second edition. The second IEEE DSAA’2015 was held in Paris in 2015 which was also very successful. The third IEEE DSAA’2016 is planned in Montreal. They continue to be technically sponsored by ACM.