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Undergraduate research experiences hold many potential benefits. Students can
learn about new areas opening up previously unknown paths in academia and
industry. The hands-on experience often provides a deeper understanding of what
science, research, and data analysis is and, importantly, is not. While
numerous studies have provided information about the benefits and challenges of
undergraduate research, many still find it difficult to start an undergraduate
research group. Here, we provide a roadmap and resources to help faculty of all
levels create and sustain an undergraduate research group in quantitative areas
such as statistics, informatics, and data science. While we focus on
undergraduate research in data science, many of the recommendations may be
generally useful to research mentoring of all levels and other domains.
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