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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

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. Diagnostic analytics: Diagnostic analytics helps pinpoint the reason an event occurred.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

These sit on top of data warehouses that are strictly governed by IT departments. The role of traditional BI platforms is to collect data from various business systems. Diagnostic Analytics: No longer just describing. Predictive Analytics: If x, then y (e.g., Now explaining why things happened (e.g.,