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Straumann Group is transforming dentistry with data, AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Selling the value of data transformation Iyengar and his team are 18 months into a three- to five-year journey that started by building out the data layer — corralling data sources such as ERP, CRM, and legacy databases into data warehouses for structured data and data lakes for unstructured data.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Overview: Data science vs data analytics Think of data science as the overarching umbrella that covers a wide range of tasks performed to find patterns in large datasets, structure data for use, train machine learning models and develop artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

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Quantitative and Qualitative Data: A Vital Combination

Sisense

Most commonly, we think of data as numbers that show information such as sales figures, marketing data, payroll totals, financial statistics, and other data that can be counted and measured objectively. This is quantitative data. It’s “hard,” structured data that answers questions such as “how many?”

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Improve healthcare services through patient 360: A zero-ETL approach to enable near real-time data analytics

AWS Big Data

Achieving this will also improve general public health through better and more timely interventions, identify health risks through predictive analytics, and accelerate the research and development process. To get started with this feature, see Querying the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Satesh Sonti is a Sr.

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The rise of the data lakehouse: A new era of data value

CIO Business Intelligence

Previously, Walgreens was attempting to perform that task with its data lake but faced two significant obstacles: cost and time. Those challenges are well-known to many organizations as they have sought to obtain analytical knowledge from their vast amounts of data. Lakehouses redeem the failures of some data lakes.

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Data Visualization and Visual Analytics: Seeing the World of Data

Sisense

Prescriptive analytics takes things a stage further: In addition to helping organizations understand causes, it helps them learn from what’s happened and shape tactics and strategies that can improve their current performance and their profitability. Predictive analytics is the most beneficial, but arguably the most complex type.

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Chose Both: Data Fabric and Data Lakehouse

Cloudera

First, organizations have a tough time getting their arms around their data. More data is generated in ever wider varieties and in ever more locations. Organizations don’t know what they have anymore and so can’t fully capitalize on it — the majority of data generated goes unused in decision making.