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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

How effectively and efficiently an organization can conduct data analytics is determined by its data strategy and data architecture , which allows an organization, its users and its applications to access different types of data regardless of where that data resides.

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Analytics Insights and Careers at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

The vast scope of this digital transformation in dynamic business insights discovery from entities, events, and behaviors is on a scale that is almost incomprehensible. Traditional business analytics approaches (on laptops, in the cloud, or with static datasets) will not keep up with this growing tidal wave of dynamic data.

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Three Types of Actionable Business Analytics Not Called Predictive or Prescriptive

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Decades (at least) of business analytics writings have focused on the power, perspicacity, value, and validity in deploying predictive and prescriptive analytics for business forecasting and optimization, respectively. How do predictive and prescriptive analytics fit into this statistical framework?