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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Data analytics is used across disciplines to find trends and solve problems using data mining , data cleansing, data transformation, data modeling, and more. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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Improve Customer Conversion Rates with AI

DataRobot Blog

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help improve the response rate on your coupon offers by letting you consider the unique characteristics and wide array of data collected online and offline of each customer and presenting them with the most attractive offers. Training and Testing Different AI Models.

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How to supercharge data exploration with Pandas Profiling

Domino Data Lab

Producing insights from raw data is a time-consuming process. Predictive modeling efforts rely on dataset profiles , whether consisting of summary statistics or descriptive charts. Results become the basis for understanding the solution space (or, ‘the realm of the possible’) for a given modeling task.

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CIO 100 Award winners prove the transformative value of IT

CIO Business Intelligence

The Behavioral Health Acuity Risk (BHAR) model leverages a machine learning technique called random forests, which can be natively hosted in the electronic health record and updated in near-real time, with results immediately available to clinical staff.

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6 Case Studies on The Benefits of Business Intelligence And Analytics

datapine

BI software uses algorithms to extract actionable insights from a company’s data and guide its strategic decisions. BI users analyze and present data in the form of dashboards and various types of reports to visualize complex information in an easier, more approachable way.

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The unreasonable importance of data preparation

O'Reilly on Data

Beyond the autonomous driving example described, the “garbage in” side of the equation can take many forms—for example, incorrectly entered data, poorly packaged data, and data collected incorrectly, more of which we’ll address below. Why is high-quality and accessible data foundational?