Operational Research in the time of COVID-19: the ‘science for better’ or worse in the absence of hard data
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How can policymakers and planners make informed decisions during a pandemic? What kind of (big) data are needed, and who and when is supposed to provide these? With the Operational Research community unable to get hold of reliable hard data – especially during the pandemic, the solutions promoted from analytics seem questionable. We may have to employ instead auxiliary data from social media and rapid market surveys.
Keywords
- Operational Research, Crisis, COVID-19, Hard data, Auxiliary Data
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 448-449 |
| Journal | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 21 Jun 2021 |
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| Publication status | Published - Feb 2023 |
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