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About WiDS

Hailed as one of the best careers of the 21st century, data science jobs have grown 650% since 2012, according to LinkedIn. Are you curious about what data scientists do, what backgrounds they have, and how you can become a data scientist yourself?

Join us for the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Claremont conference on April 1, 2022! The 5C conference is supported by the Departments of Economics, Mathematics + Statistics, and Computer Science, as well as the President and VP + Dean of the College of Pomona College, and both the Quantitative Skills Center at Pomona and the 5C Office of Consortial Academic Collaboration.

As of 2020, just 18% of data scientists are women. We bring you three remarkable senior women data scientists as keynote speakers. You will also hear from a few stellar Pomona alumnae who are pursuing careers in data science.

Learn about the impact and ethics of data science, and how we can harness data for social good. Learn how your liberal arts education positions you perfectly for this quintessentially interdisciplinary field.

WiDS

WiDS Claremont is an independent event organized by Manisha Goel, Jo Hardin, and Michelle Zemel to coincide with the annual Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference held at Stanford University and an estimated 150+ locations worldwide. All genders are invited to attend WiDS regional events, which features outstanding women doing outstanding work.

Pomona College

Pomona College is a small liberal arts college in Southern California. With approximately 1700 students enrolled, it is part of the Claremont Colleges Consortium, consisting of Scripps Collge, Pitzer College, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont McKenna College, and the Claremont Graduate University.

Organizers

As WiDS Ambassadors we are excited to invite you to WiDS Claremont! A day of celebrating awesome women who do Data Science is about as good as it gets. We hope you join us.

WiDS Claremont Ambassadors

Manisha Goel

Manisha Goel

Associate Professor of Economics

Manisha Goel

is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Pomona College, an AALIMS faculty fellow, and a senior visiting faculty fellow at ICRIER. She is also the co-founder of EconText, a lab that works on research projects that combine econometric and natural language processing methods.

Jo Hardin

Jo Hardin

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

Jo Hardin

is a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Pomona College. She recently co-authored Introduction to Modern Statistics as part of the suite of OpenIntro texts. Her areas of statistical expertise include statistical analysis of high-throughput genetic data which don’t conform to technical conditions in standard methods. She works on problems of normalizing data structures, clustering and classifying time course profiles, and creating metrics to measure a variety of signals.

Michelle Zemel

Michelle Zemel

Associate Professor of Economics

Michelle Zemel

is an Associate Professor of Economics at Pomona College. She received my PhD in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University in 2012. Her research interests are in empirical banking; she is interested in understanding the ways in which the health of the banking sector affects the functioning of the real economy. She teaches courses in statistics, corporate finance, risk management, and advanced topics in banking.

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