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Without human insights, data and the hard sciences will not meet the challenges of the next decade, says Hetan Shah.
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Hetan Shah
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Hetan Shah is the incoming chief executive of the British Academy in London. Twitter @HetanShah
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At the beginning of the year, Dominic Cummings, a senior adviser to the UK government, posted an unusual advert on his blog, calling for data scientists, mathematicians and physicists to join him at the heart of government. As outgoing director of the Royal Statistical Society in London and soon-to-be chief executive of the British Academy, I support the sentiment behind the call: data do have huge power to inform government policy.
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Nature 577, 295 (2020)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00064-x
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Correction 24 January 2020: An earlier version of this article incorrectly located Melissa Leach at the University of Sussex.
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