If there is still any doubt in your mind about the importance of data in our lives, just try booking a ticket to a festival this summer or getting on a plane to anywhere. A few days ago, we were disappointed, yet again, to discover that we could not say goodbye to the restrictions we have endured over the last eighteen months in the name of public safety. This decision was taken based upon the collection of billions of data points, that data was then algorithmically sliced and diced to the tune of some very intelligent (and by now quite stressed), data engineers, led by the epidemiologists who advise our government. Not that long ago, the idea that a simple collection of data and its subsequent analysis could have such a significant impact on all of us would have been inconceivable.
This is an example of the power of Data on a ‘macro’ (and very public) scale. In this instance the outcome affects huge swathes (if not all) of the population. Yet this happens more often than we might think.
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