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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Data science is an area of expertise that combines many disciplines such as mathematics, computer science, software engineering and statistics. It focuses on data collection and management of large-scale structured and unstructured data for various academic and business applications.

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Quantitative and Qualitative Data: A Vital Combination

Sisense

Most commonly, we think of data as numbers that show information such as sales figures, marketing data, payroll totals, financial statistics, and other data that can be counted and measured objectively. This is quantitative data. It’s “hard,” structured data that answers questions such as “how many?”

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11 dark secrets of data management

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, they may not be easy to apply or simple to comprehend but thanks to bench scientists and mathematicians alike, companies now have a range of logistical frameworks for analyzing data and coming to conclusions. More importantly, we also have statistical models that draw error bars that delineate the limits of our analysis.

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8 Modeling Tools to Build Complex Algorithms

Domino Data Lab

With the right tools, your data science teams can focus on what they do best – testing, developing and deploying new models while driving forward-thinking innovation. In general terms, a model is a series of algorithms that can solve problems when given appropriate data. It’s most helpful in analyzing structured data.

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Five Strategies to Accelerate Data Product Development

Cloudera

A common pitfall in the development of data platforms is that they are built around the boundaries of point solutions and are constrained by the technological limitations (e.g., a technology choice such as Spark Streaming is overly focused on throughput at the expense of latency) or data formats (e.g.,

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