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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Business users will also perform data analytics within business intelligence (BI) platforms for insight into current market conditions or probable decision-making outcomes. Many functions of data analytics—such as making predictions—are built on machine learning algorithms and models that are developed by data scientists.

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Prescriptive Analytics – a Winning Bet for Casinos

BizAcuity

Prescriptive analytics is the area of business analytics (BA) dedicated to finding the best course of action for a given situation. Once the sorting and analysis of data is performed, casinos can use such tools and methods to focus on building attractive marketing and service offerings that can drive response, revenues and profits.

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Alation Connected Sheets Brings Trust to Spreadsheets

Alation

Spreadsheets dominate the activities of gathering and preparing data, and performing descriptive analytics. Sales operations rely on spreadsheets for forecasting and resource planning. Demand generation marketing teams rely on spreadsheets for analyzing the performance and ROI of different channels.

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Prescriptive Analytics – a Winning Bet for Casinos

BizAcuity

Prescriptive analytics is the area of business analytics (BA) dedicated to finding the best course of action for a given situation. Once the sorting and analysis of data is performed, casinos can use such tools and methods to focus on building attractive marketing and service offerings that can drive response, revenues and profits.

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Disrupt and Innovate in a Data-Driven World

Cloudera

The private sector already very successfully uses data analytics and machine learning not only to realise efficiency gains but also – even more importantly – to create completely new services and business models. Gain improved intelligence on operating context and needs through expanded use of descriptive analytics techniques.

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What Is The Difference Between Business Intelligence And Analytics?

datapine

While BI tells you what has happened in the past and what is happening now (descriptive analytics), BA tells you what will happen in the future (predictive analytics). Descriptive analytics : As its name suggests, this analysis method is used to describe and summarize the main characteristics found on a dataset.

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Incorporating Artificial Intelligence for Businesses : The Modern Approach to Data Analytics

BizAcuity

By 2025, AI will be the top category driving infrastructure decisions, due to the maturation of the AI market, resulting in a tenfold growth in compute requirements. 85% of AI (marketing) projects fail due to risk, confusion, and lack of upskilling among marketing teams.(Source: AI in Marketing. Source: Gartner Research).