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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI). Diagnostic analytics uses data (often generated via descriptive analytics) to discover the factors or reasons for past performance. In business, predictive analytics uses machine learning, business rules, and algorithms.

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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Research firm Gartner defines business analytics as “solutions used to build analysis models and simulations to create scenarios, understand realities, and predict future states.”. Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data to describe the organization’s present state by identifying trends and patterns.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Overview: Data science vs data analytics Think of data science as the overarching umbrella that covers a wide range of tasks performed to find patterns in large datasets, structure data for use, train machine learning models and develop artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

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Decoding Data Analyst Job Description: Skills, Tools, and Career Paths

FineReport

Data analysts leverage four key types of analytics in their work: Prescriptive analytics: Advising on optimal actions in specific scenarios. Diagnostic analytics: Uncovering the reasons behind specific occurrences through pattern analysis. Descriptive analytics: Assessing historical trends, such as sales and revenue.

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Five Steps for Building a Successful BI Strategy

Sisense

Most companies find themselves in the bottom left corner, in the Descriptive Analytics and Diagnostic Analytics sections. You likely already have some form of scheduled reports, are drilling down into your data, discovering what is in your data, and may even be visualizing to some extent.

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Incorporating Artificial Intelligence for Businesses : The Modern Approach to Data Analytics

BizAcuity

AI can be applies to all 3 major types of analytics: Descriptive Analytics: The entire journey of the descriptive and diagnostic analytics process includes data extraction, data aggregation and data mining; 3 applications where AI is widely used to reduce costs, and eliminate complex actions.

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Birst Named to Constellation ShortList™ for Cloud-Based Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms for 4th Straight Time

Birst BI

The user can’t be assumed to be an internal user who can be trained, so intuitive visualization and interfaces are a must.”. The result is a consistent enterprise view that enables users with self-service analytics through world-class dashboards, drill-down reporting, visual discovery, mobile tools, and predictive analytics.