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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Those who work in the field of data science are known as data scientists. Healthcare systems can also forecast which regions will experience a rise in flu cases or other infections. Prescriptive analytics: Prescriptive analytics predicts likely outcomes and makes decision recommendations.

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. The data sources used by a DSS could include relational data sources, cubes, data warehouses, electronic health records (EHRs), revenue projections, sales projections, and more.

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Straumann Group is transforming dentistry with data, AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Selling the value of data transformation Iyengar and his team are 18 months into a three- to five-year journey that started by building out the data layer — corralling data sources such as ERP, CRM, and legacy databases into data warehouses for structured data and data lakes for unstructured data.

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

IBM Big Data Hub

Data from various sources, collected in different forms, require data entry and compilation. That can be made easier today with virtual data warehouses that have a centralized platform where data from different sources can be stored. One challenge in applying data science is to identify pertinent business issues.

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Disrupt and Innovate in a Data-Driven World

Cloudera

The private sector already very successfully uses data analytics and machine learning not only to realise efficiency gains but also – even more importantly – to create completely new services and business models. Achieve best possible outcomes for individuals through the application of prescriptive analytics.

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Create an end-to-end data strategy for Customer 360 on AWS

AWS Big Data

Plan on how you can enable your teams to use ML to move from descriptive to prescriptive analytics. The AWS modern data architecture shows a way to build a purpose-built, secure, and scalable data platform in the cloud. Learn from this to build querying capabilities across your data lake and the data warehouse.

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Biggest Trends in Data Visualization Taking Shape in 2022

Smart Data Collective

Some solutions provide read and write access to any type of source and information, advanced integration, security capabilities and metadata management that help achieve virtual and high-performance Data Services in real-time, cache or batch mode. How does Data Virtualization complement Data Warehousing and SOA Architectures?