CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

What is business analytics? Business analytics is the practical application of statistical analysis and technologies on business data to identify and anticipate trends and predict business outcomes. What is the difference between business analytics and business intelligence? Prescriptive analytics: What do we need to do?

Business Analytics 136

Business Analytics Prescriptive Analytics Data mining Diagnostic Analytics 136

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Data science is an area of expertise that combines many disciplines such as mathematics, computer science, software engineering and statistics.

Data Science 84

Data Science Data Analytics Prescriptive Analytics Analytics 84

Rocket-Powered Data Science

JULY 19, 2023

I recently saw an informal online survey that asked users which types of data (tabular, text, images, or “other”) are being used in their organization’s analytics applications. This was not a scientific or statistically robust survey, so the results are not necessarily reliable, but they are interesting and provocative.

Data-driven 186

Data-driven Enterprise Analytics Machine Learning 186

Smarten

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Gartner says that a Citizen Data Scientist is “a person who creates or generates models that leverage predictive or prescriptive analytics, but whose primary job function is outside of the field of statistics and analytics.” This term has been around for some time and was popularized by Gartner.

Prescriptive Analytics 52

Prescriptive Analytics Statistics Consulting Metrics 52

IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. Ultimately, data science is used in defining new business problems that machine learning techniques and statistical analysis can then help solve.

Machine Learning 60

Machine Learning Data Science Statistics Deep Learning 60

Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 14, 2019

They can use predictive, descriptive and prescriptive analytics to help CSCOs turn metrics into insights for better decision-making. Statistics, qualitative analysis and quant are some of the backbones of big data. Apache Spark. Spark is an in-memory database that’s a faster alternative to MapReduce.

Big Data 75

Big Data Software Data mining Prescriptive Analytics 75

Sisense

AUGUST 11, 2019

Typically, this involves using statistical analysis and predictive modeling to establish trends, figuring out why things are happening, and making an educated guess about how things will pan out in the future. What About “Business Intelligence”? But on the whole, BI is more concerned with the whats and the hows than the whys.

Business Intelligence 75

Business Intelligence Business Analytics Analytics OLAP 75