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3 Things Citizen Data Scientists Need in Predictive Analytics!

Smarten

The technology research firm, Gartner has predicted that, ‘predictive and prescriptive analytics will attract 40% of net new enterprise investment in the overall business intelligence and analytics market.’ Complete Set of Analytical Techniques. Access to Flexible, Intuitive Predictive Modeling.

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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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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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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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Seven Steps to Success for Predictive Analytics in Financial Services

Birst BI

An analytics alternative that goes beyond descriptive analytics is called “Predictive Analytics.”. Predictive Analytics: Predicting Future Outcomes. While descriptive analytics are focused on historical performance, predictive analytics are about predicting future outcomes.

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Machine Learning and AI Underpin Predictive Analytics to Achieve Clinical Breakthroughs

Cloudera

To arrive at quality data, organizations are spending significant levels of effort on data integration, visualization, and deployment activities. Ember exploits FHIR beyond data exchange to empower interoperable analytics. Author: Ryan Swenson, Global Leader, Cloudera Healthcare and Life Sciences.

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Re-Visualizing Business Intelligence, now let’s chat!

Smarten

From reporting to visualised dashboard to predictive analytics. We know that by designing self-learning programs, we are in a position to provide prescriptive analytics. Some prescriptive analytics based on known parameters were always a part of ERP or BI offering. This was early predictive or was it?