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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Prescriptive analytics: Prescriptive analytics predicts likely outcomes and makes decision recommendations. An electrical engineer can use prescriptive analytics to digitally design and test out various electrical systems to see expected energy output and predict the eventual lifespan of the system’s components.

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Straumann Group is transforming dentistry with data, AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Selling the value of data transformation Iyengar and his team are 18 months into a three- to five-year journey that started by building out the data layer — corralling data sources such as ERP, CRM, and legacy databases into data warehouses for structured data and data lakes for unstructured data.

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Create an end-to-end data strategy for Customer 360 on AWS

AWS Big Data

Plan on how you can enable your teams to use ML to move from descriptive to prescriptive analytics. The AWS modern data architecture shows a way to build a purpose-built, secure, and scalable data platform in the cloud. Learn from this to build querying capabilities across your data lake and the data warehouse.

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Data Visualization and Visual Analytics: Seeing the World of Data

Sisense

Broadly, there are three types of analytics: descriptive , prescriptive , and predictive. The simplest type, descriptive analytics , describes something that has already happened and suggests its root causes. This data is gathered into either on-premises servers or increasingly into cloud data warehouses and data lakes.

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The Gartner 2021 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics Leaders Webinar Q&A

Andrew White

Data and Analytics Governance: Whats Broken, and What We Need To Do To Fix It. Link Data to Business Outcomes. Does Data warehouse as a software tool will play role in future of Data & Analytics strategy? Data lakes don’t offer this nor should they. Thanks for the overview Andrew.