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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). This is often used to understand customer segments.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

Altexsoft

diversity of sales channels, complex structure resulting in siloed data and lack of visibility. These challenges can be addressed by intelligent management supported by data analytics and business intelligence (BI) that allow for getting insights from available data and making data-informed decisions to support company development.

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What is data visualization? Presenting data for decision-making

CIO

Hierarchical: These visualizations show how groups relate to one another. Tree diagrams are an example of a hierarchical visualization that shows how larger groups encompass sets of smaller groups. Network: Network visualizations show how data sets are related to one another in a network. It also has a mobile app.

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5 hot IT hiring trends — and 5 going cold

CIO

Thomas Vick, regional director for Robert Half’s technology practice group, says that, in particular, demand has dropped for quality assurance engineers and level 1 help desk work. “On Virtual meetups and peer group chat rooms have taken the place of in-person networking events.

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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO

But experienced data analysts and data scientists can be expensive and difficult to find and retain. Self-service analytics typically involves tools that are easy to use and have basic data analytics capabilities. Users have freedom to slice and dice the data without technical know-how,” he says.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%).

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Inside the Kentik Data Engine, Part 2

Kentik

In part 1 of this series we introduced Kentik Data Engine™, the backend to Kentik Detect™, which is a large-scale distributed datastore that is optimized for querying IP flow records (NetFlow v5/9, sFlow, IPFIX) and related network data (GeoIP, BGP, SNMP). GROUP BY src_geo, dst_geo. FROM big_backbone_router.