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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

More specifically: Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data from multiple sources to describe the present state, or a specified historical state, by identifying trends and patterns. Predictive analytics is often considered a type of “advanced analytics,” and frequently depends on machine learning and/or deep learning.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 10

Domino Data Lab

ans from Nick Elprin, CEO and co-founder of Domino Data Lab, about the importance of model-driven business: “Being data-driven is like navigating by watching the rearview mirror. If your business is using big data and putting dashboards in front of analysts, you’re missing the point.”.

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

Andrew White

As such banking, finance, insurance and media are good examples of information-based industries compared to manufacturing, retail, and so on. Remember, it’s not about how many records were cleaned up or how many dashboards were generated, it’s about how much of an impact on the outcome the worm of D&A has that counts.