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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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Business Intelligence vs Data Science vs Data Analytics

FineReport

Good data can give you keen insights, convincing evidence to make informed decisions. By observing and analyzing data, we can develop more accurate theories and formulate more effective solutions. For this reason, data science and/vs. Definition: BI vs Data Science vs Data Analytics.

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Analytics Insights and Careers at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

One of the primary drivers for the phenomenal growth in dynamic real-time data analytics today and in the coming decade is the Internet of Things (IoT) and its sibling the Industrial IoT (IIoT). This article quotes an older market projection (from 2019) , which estimated “the global industrial IoT market could reach $14.2

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. What is data science? This post will dive deeper into the nuances of each field.

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Three Emerging Analytics Products Derived from Value-driven Data Innovation and Insights Discovery in the Enterprise

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Accompanying the massive growth in sensor data (from ubiquitous IoT devices, including location-based and time-based streaming data), there have emerged some special analytics products that are growing in significance, especially in the context of innovation and insights discovery from on-prem enterprise data sources.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

More specifically: Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data from multiple sources to describe the present state, or a specified historical state, by identifying trends and patterns. Predictive analytics is often considered a type of “advanced analytics,” and frequently depends on machine learning and/or deep learning.

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Assisted Predictive Analytics Benefits All Team Members!

Smarten

Leverage Enterprise Investments for Predictive Analytics and Gain Numerous Advantages! Gartner has predicted that, ‘predictive and prescriptive analytics will attract 40% of net new enterprise investment in the overall business intelligence and analytics market.’ Why the focus on predictive analytics?