Michael Walker's Blog Posts Tagged 'Descriptive' (4)

Prescriptive Analytics

Business analytics comes in three (3) general flavors: descriptive, predictive and prescriptive. See: …

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Added by Michael Walker on August 27, 2013 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Demand for Data Scientists and the Datification of Business

Source: EMC2 Survey.

You cannot improve and manage what you…

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Added by Michael Walker on July 16, 2013 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Predictive analytics is now sexy in the business world. While predictive analytics has many benefits and can help organizations gain competitive advantage, the hype may be causing false expectations. There is a mistaken…

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Added by Michael Walker on March 27, 2013 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Predictive, Descriptive, Prescriptive Analytics

The goal of Data Analytics (big and small) is to get actionable insights resulting in smarter decisions and better business outcomes. How you architect business technologies and design data analytics processes to get valuable, actionable insights varies.

It is critical to design and build a data warehouse / business intelligence…

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Added by Michael Walker on September 19, 2012 at 11:57am — No Comments