Remove Forecasting Remove Insurance Remove Predictive Analytics Remove Prescriptive Analytics
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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. Diagnostic analytics uses data (often generated via descriptive analytics) to discover the factors or reasons for past performance.

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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.

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The Gartner 2021 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics Leaders Webinar Q&A

Andrew White

As such banking, finance, insurance and media are good examples of information-based industries compared to manufacturing, retail, and so on. On end user clients calls, are you hearing a greater focus on use cases and greater need for prescriptive analytics, ex marketing analytics, sales analytics, healthcare, etc.