Business Analytics For Managers

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Business Analytics for Managers

2. Descriptive Analytics: An application of simple statistical techniques which describes the


content in the data set or database.

 Measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, graphs, charts, sampling methods,


sorting methods, etc., are part of descriptive analytics.
 It is used to identify the trends in large databases or data sets.
 It is basically used to get a rough idea of how the data looks like and criteria is required
to identify such trends
 Example: A bar chart depicting the ages of different customers of an online shopping
website and observe the behavior of their shopping trends.

Predictive Analytics: An application of advanced statistical techniques, operations research


methods or information software to identify predictive variables and build predictive models to
identify trends and relationships.

 Operation research methods like forecasting models and information system methods like
data mining and sorting are used.
 Statistical methods like multiple regression and ANOVA are used to build predictive
models, designed to identify and predict future trends.
 Example: Multiple regressions used to know the relationship between age, weight, and
sleeping habits to predict and know the subscriptions for an online based fitness training
centers.

3. a) Applications of Business Analytics:

 To maintain excellent customer relationships with the customers, business analytics is


used to observe the buying patterns, lifestyle, demographics, etc
 In credit/debit card companies, business analytics is used to identify customer buying
habits, spending nature and try to suggest the customers in taking new credit cards.
 Using the business analytics HR professionals could find the best fit candidates for the
company by calculating attrition rates, candidate’s performance, average employment
period, etc.
 In the marketing field, one can observe the customers behavior, buying patterns, spending
nature, etc., and perform the marketing techniques according to that.

b) Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Business:

 Manage and analyze the data – It helps you interpret and mine your data more
efficiently than ever before and provide meaningful insight into your assets, your brand,
staff or customers.
 Optimize logistics - The use of AI powered image recognition tools to monitor and
optimize your infrastructure, plan transport routes, etc.
 Improve customer services – We can help customers with virtual services for frequently
asked question.
 Predict performance - The use AI applications to determine when you might reach
performance goals, such as response time to help desk calls.

1. Type of digital data are classified into-

a) Semi-structured: Data is information that does not reside in a relational database but
that have some organizational properties that make it easier to analyze. Some attributes
may exist in some of the entities of a particular type but not in others.
b) Structured data: Structured data is a data whose elements are addressable for effective
analysis. It has been organized into a formatted repository that is typically a database. It
stores all data in SQL tables with columns and rows.
c) Unstructured Data: This unstructured data is opposite of structured data. It a data that is
which is not organized in a pre-defined manner, it is not a good fit for a mainstream
relational database. Example: web pages in html contain some unstructured data.

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