(USA and Canada) Mark Ramsey, Managing Partner at Ramsey International together with Mayank Mehra, Product Manager, Nabu at Modak describes how COVID-19 impacted data science initiatives. While some business organizations had significant drops resulting in loss of jobs in the data science industry, the move to digital and demand for analytics were observed in other industries. Increased interest and demand in data science activities from other organizations want to take advantage of data as a strategic asset. COVID-19 gave way to accelerate digital and data analytics to drive decision-making.