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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Data analytics is used across disciplines to find trends and solve problems using data mining , data cleansing, data transformation, data modeling, and more. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

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Techniques for Collecting, Prepping, and Plotting Data: Predicting Social Media-Influence in the NBA

Domino Data Lab

A further diagnostic step is to plot the predicted values of the linear regression versus the actual values. an lmplot of the predicted and actual is shown, and it is obvious that this isn’t that great a prediction model. With all the data collected, there are some interesting new plots to test out.