Global problems need social science
Without human insights, data and the hard sciences will not meet the challenges of the next decade, says Hetan Shah. 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. Read more: Https://Www.Nature.Com/Articles/D41586-020-00064-X
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