I also believe that working with data connects researchers’ work with the real life of people in a very efficient and strong way. For instance, if a political actor implements new social policies it is not necessary to try to guess what is going to happen or happened. With data, it is possible to measure in an efficient and precise way the impact of a policy – a powerful instrument to make our everyday life better.
Social sciences are traditionally placed among the humanities subjects, but this is reductive, data analysis is a relatively new field that is becoming day by day more popular among people south korea rcs data interested in human interactions. The advent of the internet started to produce enormous quantities of data that are providing easy to collect information about human behaviour as we could have never possibly imagined before. In a couple of years being able to handle data is going to be critical and the level of mathematical sophistication required in addition to the ease of collecting these data will make social sciences much closer to the idea of a social physics. Follow Claudia on Callum Staff: Principal Data Scientist, Department for Education
Callum is the Principal Data Scientist for teacher supply at the Department for Education. He leads a team using a range of data science techniques to explore how teacher supply varies across the country.