We use the framework exploited by Bakry and Emery for the study of logarithmic Sobolev inequalities to consider the statistical problem of estimating the Ricci curvature (and more generally the Bakry-Emery tensor of a manifold with density) of an embedded submanifold of Euclidean space from a point cloud drawn from the submanifold. Our method leads to a definition of Coarse Ricci curvature alternative to the one proposed by Y. Ollivier. This is joint work with Micah Warren.