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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

The chief aim of data analytics is to apply statistical analysis and technologies on data to find trends and solve problems. Data analytics draws from a range of disciplines — including computer programming, mathematics, and statistics — to perform analysis on data in an effort to describe, predict, and improve performance.

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A Guide To Starting A Career In Business Intelligence & The BI Skills You Need

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According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for qualified business intelligence analysts and managers is expected to soar to 14% by 2026, with the overall need for data professionals to climb to 28% by the same year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also states that in 2015, the annual median salary for BI analysts was $81,320.

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How To Find And Resolve Blind Spots In Your Data

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Get Rid of Blind Spots in Statistical Models With Machine Learning. Data-related blind spots could also exist in your statistical models. RiskSpan is a company that built a machine learning algorithm that can flag error-prone parts of a statistical model and indicate which associated outputs may be unreliable.

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An Overview of Revenue Analytics for Event Industry

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This is resulting in the largest event management companies across this sector spending more than $43 billion on revenue analytics – which is a multi-dimensional and evolving field harnessing statistics, Artificial Intelligence and other tools to identify meaningful patterns in large data sets. billion in 2015 to $21.92

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Changing assignment weights with time-based confounders

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

For example, imagine a fantasy football site is considering displaying advanced player statistics. A ramp-up strategy may mitigate the risk of upsetting the site’s loyal users who perhaps have strong preferences for the current statistics that are shown. One reason to do ramp-up is to mitigate the risk of never before seen arms.

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Making intelligent automation work at scale

CIO Business Intelligence

Spreading the news Telecom provider AT&T began trialing RPA in 2015 to decrease the number of repetitive tasks, such as order entry, for its service delivery group. The statistics in discovery create a scope of the problem and how each issue can be solved, whether by business redefining their process or by applying technology,” she says.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.