Leveraging Location Intelligence to Plan your Workforce Strategically

Post pandemic, Location intelligence research has got fascinating.  Such Research needs to be very strategic from a workforce planning standpoint, but at the same time, we have to execute and move very fast on critical decisions.  A data scientist named Youyang Gu emerged during the pandemic, building one of the best performing Covid19 projections.  In his own words, Youyang Gu states that Research is generally a slow process — decisions take months and sometimes years. COVID-19 has hastened this timeline. People who can adapt to fast iterations and release real-time analyses will inevitably have an advantage in producing the latest insights. Youyang Gu built a machine learning model hailed as the most accurate for Covid-19 projections through this fast iterative approach.  The exciting aspect about this was that Youyang Gu was an untrained data scientist who relied more on crowdsourcing the inputs for his algorithm and frequently updated the model.  Advancements in technology and dismantling barriers to communication have enabled access to, and the ability to build on, tons of information and knowledge that were previously inaccessible