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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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Data architecture strategy for data quality

IBM Big Data Hub

Several factors determine the quality of your enterprise data like accuracy, completeness, consistency, to name a few. But there’s another factor of data quality that doesn’t get the recognition it deserves: your data architecture. How the right data architecture improves data quality.

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The New Normal for FP&A: Data Analytics

Jedox

The term “data analytics” refers to the process of examining datasets to draw conclusions about the information they contain. Data analysis techniques enhance the ability to take raw data and uncover patterns to extract valuable insights from it. Data analytics is not new.

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The Future Is Hybrid Data, Embrace It

Cloudera

In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB.

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The Future Is Hybrid Data, Embrace It

CIO Business Intelligence

In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed by the amount of unstructured data, cloud data, and machine data – another 50 ZB. But this is not your grandfather’s big data.

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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO Business Intelligence

While data engineers develop, test, and maintain data pipelines and data architectures, data scientists tease out insights from massive amounts of structured and unstructured data to shape or meet specific business needs and goals.

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Unstructured data management and governance using AWS AI/ML and analytics services

AWS Big Data

Unstructured data is information that doesn’t conform to a predefined schema or isn’t organized according to a preset data model. Unstructured information may have a little or a lot of structure but in ways that are unexpected or inconsistent. Text, images, audio, and videos are common examples of unstructured data.