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What is business analytics? Using data to improve business outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

Predictive analytics is the use of techniques such as statistical modeling, forecasting, and machine learning to make predictions about future outcomes. Prescriptive analytics: What do we need to do? Simplilearn adds a fourth technique : Diagnostic analytics: Why is it happening? Kaiser Permanente streamlines operations.

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Three Emerging Analytics Products Derived from Value-driven Data Innovation and Insights Discovery in the Enterprise

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Accompanying the massive growth in sensor data (from ubiquitous IoT devices, including location-based and time-based streaming data), there have emerged some special analytics products that are growing in significance, especially in the context of innovation and insights discovery from on-prem enterprise data sources.

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The Role Of Technology In A Changing Financial Services Sector Part II

Cloudera

However, another type of analytics, called “prescriptive analytics”, involves simulation tools that look towards the future with a view of many potential scenarios. Prescriptive analytics provides decision-makers with thousands of potential future scenarios. To capture the importance of sequencing of events. .

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Big Data Skill sets that Software Developers will Need in 2020

Smart Data Collective

They can use predictive, descriptive and prescriptive analytics to help CSCOs turn metrics into insights for better decision-making. Machine learning is a trending field and a hot topic right now. That, along with data mining can help if the developer wants to work with supply chains, for example. Apache Spark.

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Role of Workforce Analytics in Event Industry

BizAcuity

Workforce Analytics in simple terms can be defined as an advanced set of software and methodology tools that measures, characterizes, and organizes sophisticated employee data and these tools helps in understanding the employee performance in a logical way. For the event industry the benefits of workforce analytics approach include-.

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Prescriptive analytics: Prescriptive analytics predicts likely outcomes and makes decision recommendations. An electrical engineer can use prescriptive analytics to digitally design and test out various electrical systems to see expected energy output and predict the eventual lifespan of the system’s components.

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Build an analytics pipeline that is resilient to schema changes using Amazon Redshift Spectrum

AWS Big Data

Conclusion With the emergence of requirements for predictive and prescriptive analytics based on big data, there is a growing demand for data solutions that integrate data from multiple heterogeneous data models with minimal effort.

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