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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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Seven Steps to Success for Predictive Analytics in Financial Services

Birst BI

The output of these algorithms, when used in financial services, can be anything from a customer behavior score to a prediction of future trading trends, to flagging a fraudulent insurance claim. Once an accurate predictor of future behavior is identified, integrate the scoring measures directly into the data model.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 10

Domino Data Lab

The most poignant for me was a simple approach for measuring noise within an organization. To do this, first review quantitative decisions being made by staff – for example, settlement prices quoted by insurance claims adjusters. Measure how these decisions vary across your population.

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What Is Data Intelligence?

Alation

Augmented Analytics. DI empowers analysts to apply augmented analytics to applications, supporting predictive and prescriptive analytics use cases. Similarly, retailers and other less regulated industries are boosting defensive measures to ensure compliance with GDPR and CCPA. Why reinvent the wheel? Who does that?

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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. See Roadmap for Data Literacy and Data-Driven Business Transformation: A Gartner Trend Insight Report and also The Future of Data and Analytics: Reengineering the Decision, 2025. Great idea.