Soft computing in data science : 7th International Conference SCDS 2023 Virtual Event January 24 25 2023 proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science SCDS 2023 which was held virtually in January 2023. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial intelligence techniques and applications; computing and optimization; data analytics and technologies; data mining and image processing; mathematical and statistical learning