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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.”. I consider that a healthy trend.

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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. On end user clients calls, are you hearing a greater focus on use cases and greater need for prescriptive analytics, ex marketing analytics, sales analytics, healthcare, etc.