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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

To ensure robust analysis, data analytics teams leverage a range of data management techniques, including data mining, data cleansing, data transformation, data modeling, and more. What are the four types of data analytics? In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI).

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Diagnostic analytics: Diagnostic analytics helps pinpoint the reason an event occurred. Manufacturers can analyze a failed component on an assembly line and determine the reason behind its failure. Descriptive analytics: Descriptive analytics evaluates the quantities and qualities of a dataset.

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Three Types of Actionable Business Analytics Not Called Predictive or Prescriptive

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Decades (at least) of business analytics writings have focused on the power, perspicacity, value, and validity in deploying predictive and prescriptive analytics for business forecasting and optimization, respectively. Which pricing strategies lead to the best business revenue? Let’s define what these are.