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Analytics Insights and Careers at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

The determination of winners and losers in the data analytics space is a much more dynamic proposition than it ever has been. One CIO said it this way , “If CIOs invested in machine learning three years ago, they would have wasted their money. A lot has changed in those five years, and so has the data landscape.

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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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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

BI focuses on descriptive analytics, data collection, data storage, knowledge management, and data analysis to evaluate past business data and better understand currently known information. Whereas BI studies historical data to guide business decision-making, business analytics is about looking forward.

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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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What is the Future of Business Intelligence in the Coming Year?

Smart Data Collective

The current BI trends show that in the future, the BI software will be more accessible, so that even non-techie workers will rely on data insights in their working routine. Prescriptive Analytics. This shows why self-service BI is on the rise. Using the information in making business predictions is not a new trend.

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

AWS Big Data

In this post, we discuss how you can use purpose-built AWS services to create an end-to-end data strategy for C360 to unify and govern customer data that address these challenges. We recommend building your data strategy around five pillars of C360, as shown in the following figure.

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What Is Data Intelligence?

Alation

Data intelligence first emerged to support search & discovery, largely in service of analyst productivity. For years, analysts in enterprises had struggled to find the data they needed to build reports. This problem was only exacerbated by explosive growth in data collection and volume. Data lineage features.