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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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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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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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Machine Learning and AI Underpin Predictive Analytics to Achieve Clinical Breakthroughs

Cloudera

We recently announced the availability of MetiStream Ember on top of Cloudera, which offers an end-to-end interactive analytics platform specifically for the healthcare and life sciences industries.

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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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Data Visualization and Visual Analytics: Seeing the World of Data

Sisense

Broadly, there are three types of analytics: descriptive , prescriptive , and predictive. The simplest type, descriptive analytics , describes something that has already happened and suggests its root causes. This data is gathered into either on-premises servers or increasingly into cloud data warehouses and data lakes.

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Introducing Cloudera DataFlow (CDF)

Cloudera

Process millions of real-time messages per second to feed into your data lake or for immediate streaming analytics. Streaming Analytics – Analyze millions of streams of data in real-time using advanced techniques such as aggregations, time-based windowing, content-filtering etc.,

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