In this special guest feature, Will Fellers, Product Manager at Quantum Spatial Inc., explores different types of analytics – descriptive, predictive and prescriptive – and discusses how companies can ...

The phrase "big data explosion" is quickly becoming a cliche in the business intelligence space. By now, those who are familiar with how quickly data is being generated are well aware that the ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...

Nasheb Ismaily is a seasoned big data and cloud software engineer. He currently works for Cloudera as a senior solutions engineer. As federal agencies grapple with increasing demands to meet the ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantzig, a pure-play analytics solutions provider, has announced the completion of their latest prescriptive analytics study for a health care service provider. Based in the ...

Descriptive analytics -- looking into what has happened in the past -- is commoditized. Traditional BI, reports, and dashboards are well understood and used in one way or another across a wide ...

For more than a decade I have talked about only three types of analytics: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. This trinity of analytics variations has worked well for me, and many others use it ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS ...

The world is digitizing with increasing speed, and global interconnectivity is rising right along with it, generating abundant data. This data can facilitate more intelligent business decisions and ...

We’ve all heard the phrase “data-driven decisions” in reference to organizational leaders aspirations' to use hard facts and figures to inform their business decisions. In higher education, the core ...