week 1 _ discussion _data

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Patricia Wrote:

Hello class and Instructor,

Descriptive analytics is the process of describing or summarizing current data using existing business intelligence tools in order to better understand what is happening or has occurred. Teachers can gather data from evaluations or assignments that can offer analysts insight into how well students performed on their grade level.

Predictive analytics focuses on utilizing statistical models and machine learning approaches to forecasting probable outcomes. Teachers use learning models that consider key trends and patterns. Prior patterns help determine what is likely to happen in the future. Teachers analyze past evaluations and assignments that can determine what can happen going forward.

Prescriptive Analytics is a term that refers to the use of It is a sort of predictive analytics that is used to suggest one or more actions based on data analysis. The use of technology to help make better decisions through the analysis of raw data. Teachers should be able to tell what should be done for each student.

The three forms of analytics are frequently adopted in phases, and no one kind is considered superior to the others. They are interconnected, and each one provides a unique perspective.

Leroy Wrote:

 Data exploration by analysts is how you ensure that you’re asking better questions, but the patterns they find should not be taken seriously until they are tested statistically on new data. Analytics helps you form hypotheses, while statistics lets you test them.

Descriptive analytics looks at data statistically to tell you what happened in the past. Descriptive analytics helps a business understand how it is performing by providing context to help stakeholders interpret information. This can be in the form of data visualizations like graphs, charts, reports, and dashboards.

Predictive analytics takes historical data and feeds it into a machine learning model that considers key trends and patterns. The model is then applied to current data to predict what will happen next.

Prescriptive analytics takes predictive data to the next level. Now that you have an idea of what will likely happen in the future, what should you do? It suggests various courses of action and outlines what the potential implications would be for each.

Reference:

https://www.logianalytics.com/predictive-analytics/comparing-descriptive-predictive-prescriptive-and-diagnostic-analytics/#:~:text=Descriptive%20Analytics%20tells%20you%20what%20happened%20in%20the%20past.&text=Predictive%20Analytics%20predicts%20what%20is,take%20to%20affect%20those%20outcomes.

https://towardsdatascience.com/whats-the-difference-between-analytics-and-statistics-cd35d457e17#:~:text=Analytics%20helps%20you%20form%20hypotheses%2C%20while%20statistics%20lets%20you%20test,dataset%20also%20applies%20beyond%20it.