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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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Three Types of Actionable Business Analytics Not Called Predictive or Prescriptive

Rocket-Powered Data Science

There are other dimensions of analytics that tend to focus on hindsight for business reporting and causal analysis – these are descriptive and diagnostic analytics, respectively, which are primarily reactive applications, mostly explanatory and investigatory, not necessarily actionable.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

What are the four types of data analytics? In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI). Diagnostic analytics uses data (often generated via descriptive analytics) to discover the factors or reasons for past performance. Data analytics and data science are closely related.