I promised the D-Lab a blog post and then promptly felt unqualified to write it. (I wish that I were kidding.) Thus begins my ironic tale of imposter syndrome in data science.
Who am I?
As a new D-Lab Data Science Fellow and as a doctoral student in Rachel Morello-Frosch’s laboratory in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at Berkeley, I work at the intersection of social theory, environmental epidemiology, and geography. Specifically, I research how institutional power manifests in the distribution of environmental monitoring...