This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of theSecond International Conference on Data Science, ICDS 2015, held in Sydney,Australia, during August 8-9, 2015.

The 19 revised full papers and 5 short papers presentedwere carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers focus onthe following topics: mathematical issues in data science; big data issues andapplications; data quality and data preparation; data-driven scientificresearch; evaluation and measurement in data service; big data mining andknowledge management; case study of data science; social impacts of datascience.