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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Prescriptive analytics: Prescriptive analytics predicts likely outcomes and makes decision recommendations. 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.

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Decoding Data Analyst Job Description: Skills, Tools, and Career Paths

FineReport

Data analysts leverage four key types of analytics in their work: Prescriptive analytics: Advising on optimal actions in specific scenarios. Diagnostic analytics: Uncovering the reasons behind specific occurrences through pattern analysis.

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Data Visualization and Visual Analytics: Seeing the World of Data

Sisense

Simply put, data visualization means showing data in a visual format that makes insights easier to understand for human users. Data is usually visualized in a pictorial or graphical form such as charts, graphs, lists, maps, and comprehensive dashboards that combine these multiple formats.

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Create an end-to-end data strategy for Customer 360 on AWS

AWS Big Data

Plan on how you can enable your teams to use ML to move from descriptive to prescriptive analytics. The AWS modern data architecture shows a way to build a purpose-built, secure, and scalable data platform in the cloud. Learn from this to build querying capabilities across your data lake and the data warehouse.

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A Guide to Data Analytics in the Travel Industry

Alation

Ethical data management requires travel organizations to go beyond the minimum baseline requirements of data privacy and protection law and focus on building trusting relationships that ensure data trustworthiness. How is data analytics used in the travel industry?

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The Gartner 2021 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics Leaders Webinar Q&A

Andrew White

Does Data warehouse as a software tool will play role in future of Data & Analytics strategy? You cannot get away from a formalized delivery capability focused on regular, scheduled, structured and reasonably governed data. Data lakes don’t offer this nor should they. They have a different sweet spot.