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Decoding Data Analyst Job Description: Skills, Tools, and Career Paths

FineReport

Data analysts leverage four key types of analytics in their work: Prescriptive analytics: Advising on optimal actions in specific scenarios. Diagnostic analytics: Uncovering the reasons behind specific occurrences through pattern analysis. Descriptive analytics: Assessing historical trends, such as sales and revenue.

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Five Steps for Building a Successful BI Strategy

Sisense

Originating with Gartner, this chart includes the analytic features needed for a full analytics strategy, and what our AI team believe to be the absolute future of analytics – Cognitive Analytics. . When working with customers we’ve found that a good place to start is with finance and sales data.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

Their dashboards were visually stunning. In turn, end users were thrilled with the bells and whistles of charts, graphs, and dashboards. When visualizations alone aren’t enough to set an application apart, is there still a way for product teams to monetize embedded analytics? Yes—but basic dashboards won’t be enough.