Originally published on February 8, 2021 8:22 pm
As soon as some people hear the word “data,” they start to tune out. But not Allyson Mayer: She associates huge amounts of information with hope. It was a handful of years ago, as a doctoral student at Washington University, that the exciting possibilities of data first really struck her.
“I realized, ‘I just generated all this data myself; so did my classmates,’” Mayer recalled in a recent interview with theSTL.com. “I remember thinking that we could solve any problem out there if we could analyze the data properly. The challenge is to make the best use of the data to make novel insights and connections.”