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Hannah Fry on the power and perils of big data

The Life Scientific

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The Pandemic and the Power of Data and Science to Improve Our Lives

Despite its awfulness, it seems the pandemic has revealed the power of science and mathematics to improve our lives. Do you think it's made us all a little less fearful of numbers and data? Well, i mean, we've loked a lot of grafts,. haven't way? Like a it's certainly true that these, these topics of conversation have come up much more. I've had conversations in taxis, you know, with cab drivers about, like mathematical models which were just never talked about before. So i definitely think it's been more at the forefront of peop minds. Whether that's something that ends up staying, i i don't know. Really.

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