In her talk, Rebecca Nugent concentrates on the rise of Data Science and what it means for education at the bachelor's and perhaps master's level. She proposes that Data Science in many ways is actually "The People's Science" and that it has the ability to empower students and employees of all types of backgrounds including the humanities and social sciences. She claims it is a field that belongs to everyone and calls for everyone to seize the opportunity to become data scientists within their own fields/jobs.

Rebecca Nugent is a Teaching Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. Originally from Texas, she received her PhD in Statistics from the University of Washington. She has spearheaded the rapid growth of the Carnegie Mellon Statistics Undergraduate program and the development of modern, interdisciplinary curriculum including serving on the National Academy of Sciences Committee for “Envisioning the Data Science Discipline: The Undergraduate Perspective”. Her research interests lie in the identification and extraction of meaningful patterns in high-dimensional data, techniques which she tries to apply daily to her own life.

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