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Data analytics categories

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- [Instructor] Now that we know how to structure and process our data, its time to discuss how analytics can transform this data into valuable insights for your organization. According to Wikipedia, data analysis is the process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, in supporting decision-making. Whenever you're getting recommendations of new items to buy or movies to watch, or even when your social network starts sending ads for something that you're actually considering buying that's data analytics in practice. Needless to say, these technologies can give a serious competitive edge to most businesses. Because data analytics is a discipline that encompasses a wide range of data management tasks, it's common to classify these activities in five different categories. First, we have descriptive analytics, which focuses on discovering what…

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