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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO

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. In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI). Data analytics vs. business analytics.

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Business Analytics tools & use cases

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More data is available to businesses than ever, which is why business analytics is a growing field. But how and why professionals use data to reach decisions varies depending on the industry. In this article we will discuss business analytics tools and use cases. “The What is Business Analytics?

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PentahoWorld Keynotes Unveil Big Data Orchestration Platform Instrumental to Data-Driven Future

CTOvision

Editor’s Note: Pentaho’s open approach and value added enterprise capabilities are making it a very popular framework for knitting together organizational data holdings. PentahoWorld Keynotes Unveil Big Data Orchestration Platform Instrumental to Data-Driven Future. Marching Towards Governed Data Delivery.

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

CTOvision

Successfully deploying Hadoop as a core component or enterprise data hub within a symbiotic and interconnected big data ecosystem; integrating with existing relational data warehouse(s), data mart(s), and analytic systems, and supporting a wide range of user groups with different needs, skill sets, and workloads.

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Top LinkedIn Groups in 2014 for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science

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It it he analyzes the Top 30 LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science. We update our analysis of Top 30 LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science (Dec 2013) and find several interesting trends. Data Scientists: 114%.

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A look at the Hadoop Big Data Reservoir with Platfora’s Peter Schlampp

CTOvision

By Ryan Kamauff Peter Schlampp, the Vice President of Products and Business Development at Platfora, explains what the Hadoop Big Data reservoir is and is not in this webinar that I watched today. Knowing what the HDR is and is not is key to pulling out business intelligence insights and analytics.

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Arena raises money from Peter Thiel and David Petraeus for its decision-making AI

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It brings to mind the AI Economist , a Salesforce-developed research environment that similarly runs millions of simulations to come up with plausible fiscal policy. One of the startup’s tools uses AI techniques to simulate an economy, testing out millions of product pricing configurations to arrive at an optimal model for a company.

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