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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Decision support systems definition A decision support system (DSS) is an interactive information system that analyzes large volumes of data for informing business decisions. A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions.

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. Along with your database servers, you had, data warehousing and business intelligence. Tukey did this paper. It’s a great read.

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

There is also (as referenced by Neil in his comments above) the delayed booking of transactions in order to – with the nicest possible description – smooth revenues. Integrity of statistical estimates based on Data. The thing with statistical estimates is that they are never a single figure but a range.

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