As emerging voices in the data science community, we see a lot of promise in the future of the field and our roles in it. The articles by Jeannette Wing, Xuming He, and Xihong Lin present compelling challenges that our group of early career members—of graduate students and postgraduate researchers, rising leaders of industry, and recently appointed teaching faculty—believes gives us enough opportunity to last our whole careers. As new members, we are particularly focused on understanding how we should participate in the data science community and what our responsibilities are, to our colleagues and to broader society.
