Join CDSC

CDSC members at the CDSC group retreat in October 2025 in Seattle. Check out our other group photos!

Welcome! We are always looking for people who want to join the Community Data Science Collective — as prospective PhD students, collaborators, or anyone else interested in getting involved.

Please see our Join CDSC blog category for annual blog posts describing our process. For basic information, we especially recommend the CDSC PhD application info session and Q&A post.

Additional resources:

• Open house + Q&A session slides
• Not So Obvious FAQ — a grad-school FAQ created by student members of the group
• PhD Q&A - 2021 — notes from a past prospective-student Q&A session

You can also reach out to Mako, Aaron, or anyone else on our People page directly with questions.

The Q&A planning etherpad may also be useful for the organizers of similar Q&A events.