Healthcare analytics no longer ends at dashboards and retrospective reports. Organizations are increasingly seeking analytics that not only explain what happened but also guide what needs to happen ...

Prescriptive analytics is a type of data analytics that provides guidance on what should happen next. It's related to descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analytics. Descriptive analytics aims to ...

As organizations strive to increase data-driven operations, the number of analytics tools available grows. Understanding the differences between advanced analytics techniques and when to use them is ...

CEO of InfluxData, a leading time series platform, board member for One Heart Worldwide and board advisor for Lucidworks and The Fabric. In the current global business landscape, data-driven ...

For many years I have advocated for more sophisticated types of analytics. My goal has typically been to encourage companies to move from descriptive analytics (also known as reporting or business ...

Predictive analytics predates big data, of course, but the two complement each other nicely. According to Gartner, more than 30% of analytics projects by 2015 will provide insights based on structured ...