This proceedings volume is a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the 8th
International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS 2016) held in Rome
(Italy). The book is dedicated to Data science which aims at developing automated methods to
analyze massive amounts of data and to extract knowledge from them. It shows how Data science
employs various programming techniques and methods of data wrangling data visualization
machine learning probability and statistics. The soft methods proposed in this volume
represent a collection of tools in these fields that can also be useful for data science.
