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What is Analytics

Legal Regulations, Implications, and Issues Surrounding Digital Data
The mining, research, or examination of large-scale datasets to yield evidence of past, present or future behavior.
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Use of Big Data Analytics by Tax Authorities
Brendan Walker-Munro (Swinburne University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3130-3.ch005
Abstract
This chapter provides a thematic analysis for the Australian context of the legality and challenges to the use of big data analytics to identify risk, conduct compliance action, and make decisions within the tax administration space. Recent federal court jurisprudence and research is discussed to identify common themes (i.e., privacy/opacity, inaccuracy/bias, and fairness/due process) currently influencing the legal treatment of big data analytics within the tax administration and compliance environment in Australia.
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Managing Business Continuity in the COVID-19 Era: Case of a Manufacturing Company in Thailand
A structured process of reviewing data in a logical and detailed manner to derive meaning and understanding that would result in sensemaking.
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Omni-Channel Retailing: Enriching Customers' Shopping Experience
The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics or information resulting from the systematic analysis of data or statistics.
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Taxonomy Outline of Big Data Analytics Literature
It is the process of analyzing data belonging to specific domain using analytical tools.
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AI Chatbot to Assist Students Applying APA (7th Edition) Style in Their Academic Writing in a Polytechnic in Singapore
The process of analyzing data to discover, interpret and communicate significant patterns or insights to eventually drive or influence decision-making. Learning Analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs.
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Big Data Analytics in Retail Supply Chain
Information resulting from the systematic analysis of data or statistics.
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Reflective Learning With Video-Based Annotations
Data that a software can provide to help uncover valuable data about your users.
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Big Data Applications in Business
Has emerged as a catch-all term for a variety of different business intelligence (BI) and application-related initiatives. For some, it is the process of analyzing information from a particular domain, such as website analytics. For others, it is applying the breadth of BI capabilities to a specific content area (for example, sales, service, supply chain and so on). In particular, BI vendors use the “analytics” moniker to differentiate their products from the competition. Increasingly, “analytics” is used to describe statistical and mathematical data analysis that clusters, segments, scores and predicts what scenarios are most likely to happen.
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Nonprofit Fundraising Transformation through Analytics
Analytics is defined as the scientific process of transforming data into insight for making better decisions.
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Big Data, Who Are You?
As emerged as a catch-all term for a variety of different business intelligence (BI) and application-related initiatives. For some, it is the process of analyzing information from a particular domain, such as website analytics. For others, it is applying the breadth of BI capabilities to a specific content area (for example, sales, service, supply chain, and so on). In particular, BI vendors use the “analytics” moniker to differentiate their products from the competition. Increasingly, “analytics” is used to describe statistical and mathematical data analysis that clusters, segments, scores and predicts what scenarios are most likely to happen. Whatever the use cases, “analytics” has moved deeper into the business vernacular. Analytics has garnered a burgeoning interest from business and IT professionals looking to exploit huge mounds of internally generated and externally available data.
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Interdisciplinary Application of Machine Learning, Data Science, and Python for Cricket Analytics
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Digital Technology Deployment in Multi-National Enterprises
Refers to data-driven analysis using various methods such as data mining and statistical techniques to provide better decision making.
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What the 3Vs Acronym Didn't Put Into Perspective?
Has emerged as a catch-all term for a variety of different business intelligence (BI) and application-related initiatives. For some, it is the process of analyzing information from a particular domain, such as website analytics. For others, it is applying the breadth of BI capabilities to a specific content area (for example, sales, service, supply chain and so on). In particular, BI vendors use the “analytics” moniker to differentiate their products from the competition. Increasingly, “analytics” is used to describe statistical and mathematical data analysis that clusters, segments, scores and predicts what scenarios are most likely to happen. Whatever the use cases, “analytics” has moved deeper into the business vernacular. Analytics has garnered a burgeoning interest from business and IT professionals looking to exploit huge mounds of internally generated and externally available data.
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Advanced Analytics for Big Data
The process of transforming data into insight for the purpose of making decisions.
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The Next-Generation CBE Architecture: A Learning-Centric Standards-Based Approach
The collection and analysis of educational data to inform future instructional decisions.
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Business Case Analytics
Is the process of analyzing single or multiple sets of big or small data to discover meaningful pattern in them. Refer to the definition of big-data analytics, business case analytics, and small-data analytics.
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Data Mining and Business Intelligence: A Bibliometric Analysis
Analytics represents a combination of computational technologies, scientific management techniques, and statistics to solve real-world problems, while considering that organizations have to analyze their data to understand what is happening, what will happen, and how to take the best option.
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Empirical Investigation on the Evolution of BI Maturity in Malaysian Organizations
Davenport et al. (2007) AU15: The in-text citation "Davenport et al. (2007)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. describe analytics as “the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions” (p. 7).
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Business and Technology Trends in Social CRM
Software-based algorithms and statistics used to derive meaning from data.
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Addressing Continuous Auditing Challenges in the Digital Age: A Literature Review
A multidisciplinary field that explores, infers and communicates patterns in data.
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Investigating the Factors for Predictive Marketing Implementation in Algerian Organizations
Emerged as a catch-all term for a variety of different business intelligence (BI)- and application-related initiatives. For some, it is the process of analyzing information from a particular domain, such as website analytics. For others, it is applying the breadth of BI capabilities to a specific content area (e.g., sales, service, supply chain and so on). In particular, BI vendors use the “analytics” moniker to differentiate their products from the competition. Increasingly, “analytics” is used to describe statistical and mathematical data analysis that clusters, segments, scores, and predicts what scenarios are most likely to happen. Whatever the use cases, “analytics” has moved deeper into the business vernacular. Analytics has garnered a burgeoning interest from business and IT professionals looking to exploit huge mounds of internally generated and externally available data.
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Teaching and Using Analytics in Management Education
The science of discovering and communicating meaningful patterns in data and developing actionable plans. The Analytics paradigm often favors data visualization methods in reporting results and recommendations. Typically, Analytics consists of three board categories: descriptive, predictive and prescriptive.
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Why Is Data So Hard?: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions
The analysis and evaluation of data for the purposes of diagnosing, predicting, or prescribing actions.
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Data-Driven Simulation-Based Analytics
Application of data mining and operations research for predictions, performance evaluations, comparisons, and optimal decision making.
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Techniques and Methods That Help to Make Big Data the Simplest Recipe for Success
Has emerged as a catch-all term for a variety of different business intelligence (BI) and application-related initiatives. For some, it is the process of analyzing information from a particular domain, such as website analytics. For others, it is applying the breadth of BI capabilities to a specific content area (for example, sales, service, supply chain and so on). In particular, BI vendors use the “analytics” moniker to differentiate their products from the competition. Increasingly, “analytics” is used to describe statistical and mathematical data analysis that clusters, segments, scores and predicts what scenarios are most likely to happen. Whatever the use cases, “analytics” has moved deeper into the business vernacular. Analytics has garnered a burgeoning interest from business and IT professionals looking to exploit huge mounds of internally generated and externally available data.
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Building an Analytics Culture to Boost a Data-Driven Entrepreneur's Business Model
Has emerged as a catch-all term for a variety of different business intelligence (BI) and application-related initiatives. For some, it is the process of analyzing information from a particular domain, such as Website analytics. For others, it is applying the breadth of BI capabilities to a specific content area (for example, sales, service, supply chain, and so on). In particular, BI vendors use the “analytics” moniker to differentiate their products from the competition. Increasingly, “analytics” is used to describe statistical and mathematical data analysis that clusters, segments, scores and predicts what scenarios are most likely to happen. Whatever the use cases, “analytics” has moved deeper into the business vernacular. Analytics has garnered a burgeoning interest from business and IT professionals looking to exploit huge mounds of internally generated and externally available data.
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Optimization Models in Google Ads Campaigns
Consumer behavioral data related to their platform usage behaviors such as the number of visits to a platform, time spent on the platform, and actions when using the platform. Using these behavioral data, advertisers and marketers are able to segment target audience to increase their experiences and to improve campaign effectiveness.
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Fog-Cloud Collaboration for Real-Time Streaming Applications: FCC for RTSAs
Analytics involves analysis of the data stream through systematic processing to infer and interpret the information contained in it for data pattern recognition and decision making.
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Big Data Analytics: Educational Data Classification Using Hadoop-Inspired MapReduce Framework
Analytics is the process of statistics in which the data revelation, perception, and communication of meaningful patterns in data is obtained.
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A Framework for Profiling Prospective Students in Higher Education
The discovery, interpretation and communication of meaningful patterns in data.
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First of All, Understand Data Analytics Context and Changes
Has emerged as a catch-all term for a variety of different business intelligence (BI) and application-related initiatives. For some, it is the process of analyzing information from a particular domain, such as website analytics. For others, it is applying the breadth of BI capabilities to a specific content area (for example, sales, service, supply chain and so on). In particular, BI vendors use the “analytics” moniker to differentiate their products from the competition. Increasingly, “analytics” is used to describe statistical and mathematical data analysis that clusters, segments, scores and predicts what scenarios are most likely to happen. Whatever the use cases, “analytics” has moved deeper into the business vernacular. Analytics has garnered a burgeoning interest from business and IT professionals looking to exploit huge mounds of internally generated and externally available data.
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Querying of Time Series for Big Data Analytics
The discovery and transmission of patterns in data that are meaningful based on the context of data.
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Information Science in the Analytics of Healthcare Data
The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics.
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Big Data Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
The primary technology that facilitates decision making, along with other components, such as search and reporting. The key platform capabilities of Analytics are Data collection, large volume Data Storage, Data synchronization, Data analysis and Reporting.
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The Role of Business Analytics in Performance Management
The field of data analysis. Analytics often involves studying past historical data to research potential trends, to analyze the effects of certain decisions or events, or to evaluate the performance of a given tool or scenario. The goal of analytics is to improve the business by gaining knowledge which can be used to make improvements or changes.
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A Framework for Using Analytics to Make Decisions
the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, exploratory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions.
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Internet of Things in Tourism: A Proposal of the Information System for Cappadocia Hot-Air Ballooning
In the IoT, analytics can be defined as the results achieved by analyzing data obtained through various intelligent devices.
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Analytics for Nonprofits
The extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions.
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BI and Analytics for Effective Disaster Recovery Management Lessons From the Bayou
An umbrella term for data analysis applications. It is the use of “rocket science” algorithms (e.g., machine learning, neural networks) to analyze data.
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Studying Customer Experience and Retention Using Applied Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Intensive use of structured and unstructured customer data whose quantitative and qualitative statistical exploitation, predictive and explanatory models allow to improve the decision-making process of companies and the creation of competitive advantages and generation of value in organizations.
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Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities for the Family Business
Analytics is the processing of data, through IT, of a quantitative and qualitative type to help an organization better understand its businesses and markets (knowledge discovery) and to make timely business decisions.
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Big Data Computing Strategies
Big Data analytics is the process of finding meaningful patterns or to get insight on data with extensive use of statistical and mathematical techniques.
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What Do Facebook Users Feel About Facebook Advertising?: Using an Experience Sampling Method (ESM) to Explore Their Digital Advertising Experiences
Consumer behavioral data related to their platform usage behaviors such as the number of visits to a platform, time spent on the platform, and actions when using the platform. Using these behavioral data, advertisers and marketers are able to segment target audience to increase their experiences and to improve campaign effectiveness.
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Small-Data Analytical Culture Analytics in ERP
realizes information as competitive advantage. It is the process of analyzing single set or multiple sets of data to discover meaningful patterns in them. It facilitates the creation of the right solutions and the asking and answering of why to find the root causes in the chain of problems.
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Intelligent Techniques for Analysis of Big Data About Healthcare and Medical Records
A data driven, manual analysis and optimization models including process that creates insight.
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Valuing Social Responsibility in the Era of Data Analytics: A Process Model for Effective Practice
The use of large data sets and statistical analysis to answer questions and support decision making.
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