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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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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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Data Visualization and Visual Analytics: Seeing the World of Data

Sisense

In a world increasingly dominated by data, users of all kinds are gathering, managing, visualizing, and analyzing data in a wide variety of ways. One of the downsides of the role that data now plays in the modern business world is that users can be overloaded with jargon and tech-speak, which can be overwhelming.

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The Data Scientist’s Guide to the Data Catalog

Alation

The traditional data science workflow , as defined by Joe Blitzstein and Hanspeter Pfister of Harvard University, contains 5 key steps: Ask a question. Get the data. Explore the data. Model the data. Communicate and visualize the results. A data catalog can assist directly with every step, but model development.

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Business Intelligence Dashboard (BI Dashboard): Best Practices and Examples

FineReport

Every user can now create interactive reports and utilize data visualization to disseminate knowledge to both internal and external stakeholders. A business intelligence dashboard, also known as a BI dashboard, is a tool that presents important business metrics and data points in a visual and analytical format on a single screen.

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Five Strategies to Accelerate Data Product Development

Cloudera

A common pitfall in the development of data platforms is that they are built around the boundaries of point solutions and are constrained by the technological limitations (e.g., a technology choice such as Spark Streaming is overly focused on throughput at the expense of latency) or data formats (e.g., data warehousing).

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