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

IBM Big Data Hub

Python is the most common programming language used in machine learning. Machine learning and deep learning are both subsets of AI. Deep learning teaches computers to process data the way the human brain does. Deep learning algorithms are neural networks modeled after the human brain.