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

Andrew White

This was for the Chief Data Officer, or head of data and analytics. Gartner also published the same piece of research for other roles, such as Application and Software Engineering. Does Data warehouse as a software tool will play role in future of Data & Analytics strategy? Very interesting.