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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

I recently saw an informal online survey that asked users which types of data (tabular, text, images, or “other”) are being used in their organization’s analytics applications. This was not a scientific or statistically robust survey, so the results are not necessarily reliable, but they are interesting and provocative.

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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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3 Things Citizen Data Scientists Need in Predictive Analytics!

Smarten

The technology research firm, Gartner has predicted that, ‘predictive and prescriptive analytics will attract 40% of net new enterprise investment in the overall business intelligence and analytics market.’ Descriptive Statistics. Trends and Patterns. Forecasting. Classification. Hypothesis Testing. Correlation.

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Artificial Intelligence, Real Enhancements, Better Insights

Sisense

Sisense News is your home for corporate announcements, new Sisense features, product innovation, and everything we roll out to empower our users to get the most out of their data. There are many more things we can do to make analytics easier for everybody involved and get more people involved in analytics.

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Top 10 Analytics And Business Intelligence Trends For 2020

datapine

The demand for real-time online data analysis tools is increasing and the arrival of the IoT (Internet of Things) is also bringing an uncountable amount of data, which will promote the statistical analysis and management at the top of the priorities list. 4) Predictive And Prescriptive Analytics Tools.