Data analytics has rarely been more newsworthy. Throughout the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, governments and bodies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have produced a stream of statistics and mathematical models.
Businesses have run models to test post-lockdown scenarios, planners have looked at traffic flows and public transport journeys, and firms use artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce the workload for hard-pressed customer services teams and to handle record demand for e-commerce.
