The information era is the time when information is not only largely
generated, but also vastly processed in order to extract and generated more
information. The complex nature of modern living is represented by the various
kind of data. Data can be in the forms of signals, images, texts, or manifolds
resembling the horizon of observation. The task of the emerging data sciences
are to extract information from the data, for people gain new insights of the
complex world. The insights may came from the new way of the data
representation, be it a visualizations, mapping, or other. The insights may
also come from the implementation of mathematical analysis and or computational
processing giving new insights of what the states of the nature represented by
the data. Both ways implement the methodologies reducing the dimensionality of
the data. The relations between the two functions, representation and analysis
are the heart of how information in data is transformed mathematically and
computationally into new information. The paper discusses some practices, along
with various data coming from the social life in Indonesia to gain new insights
about Indonesia in the emerging data sciences. The data sciences in Indonesia
has made Indonesian Data Cartograms, Indonesian Celebrity Sentiment Mapping,
Ethno-Clustering Maps, social media community detection, and a lot more to
come, become possible. All of these are depicted as the exemplifications on how
Data Science has become integral part of the technology bringing data closer to
people.Comment: Paper presented in South East Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS) 7th
Conference, 10 pages, 7 figure
