Data was described as ‘new oil’ some years ago, but the pandemic has put it in a different place altogether with dashboards and data trackers making sense of everything from the strains of Covid19 to the range of vaccines, from life to workplace and everything else. It’s the exponential rise of data that has powered Covid war-rooms all over the world including in India.

       While experts in the area have shared their enthusiasm about so much data, they have also brought out the gaps and inequalities around it. Pointing at the phenomenal rise in data research and ...