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Anything that falls under the umbrella of Data Science and Information Science is intrinsically interdisciplinary and the classes I took at UCLA where as interdisciplinary as it gets. During my first two years as a Ph.D. I took classes such as
\begin{itemize}
\item Methods for social network analysis (Sociology)
\item Critical studies of architecture (Architecture)
\item Geographic thought and the concept of belonging (Geography)
\item Thinking about thinking (Cognitive Science)
\item Formal Modeling and Simulations in Social Sciences (Complex Systems)
\item Data and Media Arts (Design School)
\end{itemize}
A pretty mixed bag, huh? (\href{http://albertopepe.com/phdclasses}{Full list here}). While it all sounds a bit eccentric, these were the most formative, nurturing years of my life (I will discuss this in detail in a separate blog post). These classes instructed me on research methods I did now know about: for my dissertation \cite{Pepe} I used graph theory (physics), survey research (sociology), and "complex systems" methods. These classes also gave me the opportunity to get to know, collaborate, and publish papers with scholars in other disciplines: sociology/identity \cite{Pepe_2012}, music research \cite{Rodriguez_2008}, social media analysis \cite{Shuai_2012}, semantic web theory \cite{Rodriguez_2010}. In the final year of my Ph.D. I was lucky enough to meet a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard - \href{https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~agoodman/}{Alyssa Goodman} - passionate about data, data visualization, digital libraries, Open Access, Open Science. We immediately struck a chord and she offered me a Postdoc at Harvard to be the in-house information scientist at the \href{https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/}{Center for Astrophysics}. So, a return to \textbf{Astrophysics}, some people thought! But no, because at Harvard I also became a fellow of the most excellent \href{http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/}{Berkman Center for Internet and Society} (\textbf{Law}) and \href{http://www.iq.harvard.edu/}{Institute for Quantitative Social Science} (\textbf{Social Sciences}).
