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Predictive vs. Prescriptive Analytics: What’s the Difference?

Dataiku

The bulk of an organization’s data science, machine learning, and AI conquests come down to improving decision-making capabilities. When during this process, though, should data executives get either predictive or prescriptive? When during this process, though, should data executives get either predictive or prescriptive?

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. What is data science? This post will dive deeper into the nuances of each field.

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Three Emerging Analytics Products Derived from Value-driven Data Innovation and Insights Discovery in the Enterprise

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Accompanying the massive growth in sensor data (from ubiquitous IoT devices, including location-based and time-based streaming data), there have emerged some special analytics products that are growing in significance, especially in the context of innovation and insights discovery from on-prem enterprise data sources.

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Optimization technology and AI in the real world: Operational efficiency stories

IBM Big Data Hub

In this blog post, we’ll share real-world stories of how decision optimization technology delivers prescriptive analytics capabilities and opens the door to operational efficiency. We will also introduce you to the IBM data science and AI platform solutions that can deliver operational efficiency that satisfies the business.

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Citizen Data Scientists Are Key. So Is the Solution They Use.

Smarten

World-renowned technology analysis firm Gartner defines the role this way, ‘A citizen data scientist is a person who creates or generates models that leverage predictive or prescriptive analytics, but whose primary job function is outside of the field of statistics and analytics. ‘If

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Assisted Predictive Analytics Benefits All Team Members!

Smarten

Leverage Enterprise Investments for Predictive Analytics and Gain Numerous Advantages! Gartner has predicted that, ‘predictive and prescriptive analytics will attract 40% of net new enterprise investment in the overall business intelligence and analytics market.’ Why the focus on predictive analytics? It’s simple!