Business Analytics - Types of Analytics

Types of Analytics

  • Descriptive Analytics: Gain insight from historical data with reporting, scorecards, clustering etc.
  • Predictive analytics (predictive modeling using statistical and machine learning techniques)
  • Prescriptive analytics: recommend decisions using optimization, simulation etc.

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