Viewpoint: As AI Reshapes Development Research, Investing in Data Must Be a Key Priority
By Kalle Hirvonen and Jessica Leight
In the early 1600s, the German polymath Johannes Kepler studied years of astronomical observations and discovered that planets move in ellipses. But Kepler had no idea why planets moved that way. He had found a pattern in the data. A few decades later, Isaac Newton identified the mechanism underlying Kepler’s laws of planetary motion—gravity.
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Source: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (link opens in a new window)
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