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What Happened?What Will Happen

Next?What Should I Do

Next?

Descriptive: What happened? I walked over the edge of the cliff

Why did it happen? I walked too far

Descriptive (reporting) gives a rear-view mirror perspective: but predictive /prescriptive methods shine headlights on what lies ahead

Predictive: What is going to happened? If I stay on the current trajectory, I’m going to fall off a cliff

Prescriptive: How do I achieve the best outcome & avoid failure? Stop walking, or change direction!

What’s the best way to avoid this? When is it too late?

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What is Data Science?

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Who created this data visualization?

Florence Nightingale - 1860

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Sports or is it Business?

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What’s it all take to make it “work?”

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IBM is leading the analytics revolution; big data, analysis tools, and support infrastructure – and it’s getting more simple and more sophisticated

Big Data refers to technologies and initiatives that use data that is too diverse, fast-changing or massive for conventional approaches. The volume, velocity, or variety of data is too expansive.

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Watson Analytics provides a platform for “automated analysis” by importing and processing data sets and using machine intelligence to automatically selecting among various methods and data visualization options.

What is changing in the realm of analytics?

Analytics is providing a more vivid picture of the business and the forces that affect it.

– Reduce the time between insight and action.– Enable decision makers to find their own

answers.– Empower people at every level to act with

confidence.– Reveal answers to questions you never

thought to ask.

Going beyond business intelligence

As analytics capabilities extend beyond the traditional business intelligence systems, leading organizations are analyzing data in new and varied ways to distance themselves from the competition.

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Durban Innovation / Hackathon Challenges:

• Water Loss

• Safer Cites

• Durban Port Management

• Skills Development Unit

• Skills to employment reliable SMME database

• Heritage Museum