This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science, SCDS 2019, held in  Iizuka, Japan, in August 2019.  The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ​information and customer analytics; visual data science; machine and deep learning; big data analytics; computational and artificial intelligence; social network and media analytics.