Data analytics is used to make better business decisions by combining data and insights. There are four aspects to an effective data analytics framework: discovery, insights, actions, and outcomes. Discovery involves defining problems, developing hypotheses, and collecting relevant data. Insights are generated by exploring and analyzing the data. Actions link the insights to recommendations and plans. The desired outcomes are improved decisions and performance. Different types of analytics include descriptive (what happened), diagnostic (why), predictive (what could happen), and prescriptive (what should be done). Tools used include SQL, Hadoop, machine learning libraries, and optimization or simulation software.
Introduction to data-driven decision making and an overview of the topics covered.
Data analytics involves structured and unstructured data to enhance decision-making, addressing challenges such as variety, velocity, and volume.
Using data analytics to solve business issues, exemplified by a PwC case study on flight delays, emphasizing the financial impact of big decisions for organizations.
Need for a structured analytics framework focused on outcomes, linking discovery, insights, actions, and outcomes to drive decision-making.
Various analytics types: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive, with tools and techniques listed for each type.
List Of Topics
1.An Introduction to Data Analytics
2. The Data and Analytics Framework
3. Using Data to make decisions
3.
1. INTRODUCTION TODATA ANALYTICS
•Collection of facts
•Can be structured & / or Unstructured
What is data?
•Science of examining raw data impacting organization’s
decisions
What is analytics?
•Enabling new products and enabling new markets(e.g.
Uber, Careem)
•Disrupting existing markets
•Increased efficiency
•Manage risks & drive innovation
How data analytics affecting business?
Solving Business Problemsusing Data Analytics
How to better combine the Art(i.e. intuition) and Science of Decision
Making?
Combining a more effective use of Data with the ability to extract
insights
Embedding analytics in the decision making culture
Case Scenario PwC Client: An airline with issue of “Flight delays due to
maintenance”
PwC prepares an Analytics model that predicts 30% maintenance delays
saving millions of dollars for client.
This analytical model uses:
1. Fleet’s Message Sensor Data
2. Maintenance log Information
6.
Making Business-defining
decisions(BIG Decisions)using Data
Analytics
Organizations make day to day
operational decisions but they lack
clarity and speed needed for
Competitive advantage while
making BIG Decisions due to
circumstances beyond control such
as:
- Deadlines
- Technology
- Disruption
- Climate Change
BIG Decisions are critical as they
can shift the course of business or
industry and even shape the world
we live in.
PWC
Survey
Nearly 33%
executives value
their BIG Decisions
at $1 Billion +
50% executives
expect to make a
BIG decision at
least ONCE per
month
7.
The Data andAnalytics Framework
WHY NEED FRAMEWORK?
- Organized Data Analytics & Process of solving problems
-Focus on outcomes first enabling actions/decisions & Identify where value is generated
Conclusion: Structure of discussion with clients and follow path that leads to actionable insights
and business outcomes.
Discovery Decisions/Actions OutcomesInsights
4 Aspects of Data
Analytics
Framework
8.
Discovery
• Define the
problem
•What is the key
opportunity?
• Engage stakeholders
for perspective and
concerns
• Develop
Hypotheses
• Answer ‘what is likely
to happen’?
• Use information from
stakeholders and other
knowledge to refine
hypotheses
• Choose the hypothesis
for which the best data
exists
• Collect
Data
• Collect relevant
internal
•and external data sets
• Validate the accuracy
of
•the data
Insights
• Explore
Data
•Explore data sets to
understand how they
would help in
accepting or refuting
the hypotheses
• Analyze
Data
•Use Qualitative and
Quantitative analysis
techniques to use
data to validate the
hypotheses
•Convert outputs into
user friendly formats
and visualizations
that will help
different
stakeholders
understand the
analysis
Actions
• Link Insights
•Use actionable
data insights to
explain past
outcomes and
predict the future
landscape
•Link insights to
financial and
operational metrics
to specify impact
and aid decision
making
• Provide
Recommen
dations
•Prioritize insights to
build actionable
plans
•Provide solutions
that help business
to address future
challenges
• Link Insights
•Use actionable
data insights to
explain past
outcomes and
predict the future
landscape
•Link insights to
financial and
operational
metrics to specify
impact and aid
decision making
• Provide
Recommen
dations
•Prioritize insights to
build actionable
plans
•Provide solutions
that help business
to address future
challenges
Outcomes
9.
TYPES OF ANALYTICS
Itreplies the question “What has happened” i.e. current and past
Descriptive Analytics
It replied the question “Why it happened”
Diagnostic Analytics
It replies the question “What could happen in future”
Predictive Analytics
It replied the question “What should be done”
Prescriptive Analytics
It replies the question “How to adapt change”
Adaptive/Autonomous Analytics