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“In this emerging world in our sciences, everyone has to understand data science and how to move forward with it.”

In this episode, we’re speaking with Deb Agarwal who is Scientific Data Division Director at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory managed by the University of California. She shares her experiences getting started in data science research and how she’s seen the field of data science evolve into what we know it as today. She also speaks about why increasing representation in data science research is so important and how we can encourage diversity within the research field.

“For me, [research is about] enabling something that wasn’t possible before.”

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