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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

What is business analytics? Business analytics is the practical application of statistical analysis and technologies on business data to identify and anticipate trends and predict business outcomes. The discipline is a key facet of the business analyst role. Business analytics techniques.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

An electrical engineer can use prescriptive analytics to digitally design and test out various electrical systems to see expected energy output and predict the eventual lifespan of the system’s components. Diagnostic analytics: Diagnostic analytics helps pinpoint the reason an event occurred.

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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. Now that we have described predictive and prescriptive analytics in detail, what is there left?