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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Data analytics draws from a range of disciplines — including computer programming, mathematics, and statistics — to perform analysis on data in an effort to describe, predict, and improve performance. What are the four types of data analytics? Data analytics vs. business analytics.

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McKesson: Using Big Data to Improve Care and Save Lives

Sisense

The use of big data analytics and cloud computing has spiked phenomenally during the last decade. Big data, analytics, cloud computing, data mining, data science — the buzzwords of the modern data and analytics industry — have taken every business and organization by storm, no matter the scale or nature of the business.

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Convergent Evolution

Peter James Thomas

From 2000 to 2015, I had some success [5] with designing and implementing Data Warehouse architectures much like the following: As a lot of my work then was in Insurance or related fields, the Analytical Repositories tended to be Actuarial Databases and / or Exposure Management Databases, developed in collaboration with such teams.