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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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Big Data Skill sets that Software Developers will Need in 2020

Smart Data Collective

From the tech industry to retail and finance, big data is encompassing the world as we know it. More organizations rely on big data to help with decision making and to analyze and explore future trends. Big Data Skillsets. They’re looking to hire experienced data analysts, data scientists and data engineers.

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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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Analytics Insights and Careers at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Focus on the technologies and engineering components: e.g., sensors, monitoring, cloud-to-edge, microservices, serverless, insights-as-a-service APIs, IFTTT (IF-This-Then-That) architectures.

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Three Emerging Analytics Products Derived from Value-driven Data Innovation and Insights Discovery in the Enterprise

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Accompanying the massive growth in sensor data (from ubiquitous IoT devices, including location-based and time-based streaming data), there have emerged some special analytics products that are growing in significance, especially in the context of innovation and insights discovery from on-prem enterprise data sources.

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Optimization technology and AI in the real world: Operational efficiency stories

IBM Big Data Hub

In this blog post, we’ll share real-world stories of how decision optimization technology delivers prescriptive analytics capabilities and opens the door to operational efficiency. We will also introduce you to the IBM data science and AI platform solutions that can deliver operational efficiency that satisfies the business.