Below are the top professional organizations for data scientists – Data Science Association International Institute for Analytics (IIA) International Machine Learning Society (IMLS) Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) AAi: Advanced Analytics Institute American Statistical Association. SIGKDD, ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining National Center for Data Mining (NCDM)