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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. In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI). It is frequently used for economic and sales forecasting.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 10

Domino Data Lab

To do this, first review quantitative decisions being made by staff – for example, settlement prices quoted by insurance claims adjusters. More near-term, Kahneman suggested the use of pre-mortems – also called backcasting, as a contrapositive of forecasting. Measure how these decisions vary across your population.