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Question #: 6
Topic #: 1
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DRAG DROP -
Match the types of analytics that can be used to answer the business questions.
To answer, drag the appropriate analytics type from the column on the left to its question on the right. Each analytics type may be used once, more than once, or not at all.
NOTE: Each correct match is worth one point.
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Box 1: Diagnostic -
Diagnostic Analytics: At this stage you can begin to answer some of those why questions. Historical data can begin to be measured against other data to answer the question of why something happened in the past. This is the process of gathering and interpreting different data sets to identify anomalies, detect patters, and determine relationships.

Box 2: Prescriptive -
Prescriptive analytics is a combination of data, mathematical models, and various business rules to infer actions to influence future desired outcomes.
Predictive analytics, broadly speaking, is a category of business intelligence that uses descriptive and predictive variables from the past to analyze and identify the likelihood of an unknown future outcome

Box 3: Descriptive -
✑ Generally speaking, data analytics comes in four types:
✑ Descriptive, to answer the question: What's happening?
✑ Diagnostic, to answer the question: Why's happening?
✑ Predictive, to answer the question: What will happen?
✑ Prescriptive, to answer the question: What actions should we take?

Reference:
https://demand-planning.com/2020/01/20/the-differences-between-descriptive-diagnostic-predictive-cognitive-analytics/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/answering-whats-happening-whys-happening-and-what-will-happen-with-iot-analytics/
by puksometron at Oct. 9, 2021, 5:33 a.m.

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WillyMac
Highly Voted 9 months ago
The last must be "Cognitivive". That's what about Azure Cognitive Services
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floop92
3 years, 6 months ago
Agreed! Had this in the course
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gs23mi
Highly Voted 9 months ago
1 diagnostic : it answers the question "why did it happen?" 2 prescritive : it answers the question "how can we make it happen?" 3 descriptive: it answers the question "what happened'" ref: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals - page 23-24
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jerryl
1 month, 3 weeks ago
I think if the "business documents" are structured data then description shall make sense too I believe people choosing "descriptive" for case 3 have the same intuition
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Yaizapez
3 years, 4 months ago
The third scenario doesn't look into "what happened": It's asking for text analytics, which is not a descriptive function but a cognitive one.
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vat4444
Most Recent 2 months ago
Answer to 3. Descriptive ChatGpt said this and kind of makes sense: Type of Analysis: Determining which people are mentioned in business documents is a descriptive analysis, because: Descriptive analysis is used to summarize or describe the characteristics of a dataset. You're extracting and listing information as it is, without trying to infer or predict behavior, relationships, or outcomes. In contrast: Cognitive analysis (sometimes used interchangeably with AI-driven analysis) involves mimicking human thinking to interpret context, meaning, and intent — e.g., understanding why someone is mentioned or predicting future behavior based on mentions. So, if your goal is just to identify or count the people mentioned, it's descriptive. If you're trying to understand their roles, sentiment about them, or intent, it leans into cognitive or inferential analysis.
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man5484
7 months, 3 weeks ago
a. Why did sales increase last month Diagnostic Diagnostic analytics is used to determine why something happened by examining historical data to identify patterns or relationships. b. How do I allocate my budget to buy different inventory items Prescriptive Prescriptive analytics provides recommendations on actions to take, such as how to allocate resources or optimize decision-making. c. Which people are mentioned in a company's business documents? Cognitive Cognitive analytics uses AI and natural language processing to extract information from text and recognize entities like people, places, and things.
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AGTraining
1 year, 3 months ago
Diagnostic Prescriptive Cognitive
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BXtheCoder
1 year, 4 months ago
Isn't box 3 cognitive?
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akhil5432
1 year, 10 months ago
dignostic prescriptive discriptive
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fiksarion
1 year, 11 months ago
Justification: Diagnostic analytics is used to understand the cause and effect relationships in data, which makes it suitable for answering the question about why sales increased last month. It helps identify the factors or variables that contributed to the increase in sales. Prescriptive analytics focuses on providing recommendations or optimal solutions to business problems. Allocating a budget to buy different inventory items requires making decisions based on various factors and constraints, making prescriptive analytics the appropriate type. Cognitive analytics involves analyzing unstructured data such as text, images, or audio to gain insights. Identifying people mentioned in business documents would require analyzing text data, making cognitive analytics the relevant type in this case.
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Rajivjain
2 years ago
Correct Answer: The statement "Which people are mentioned in a company's business documents?" is descriptive. It is asking for a description or explanation of the individuals that are typically mentioned in a company's business documents. It does not involve any cognitive or analytical processing.
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okayhey
1 year, 3 months ago
That's not what descriptive analytics is, descriptive analysis looks at the past
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Vanessa23
2 years, 2 months ago
Diagnostic - Prescriptive - Cognitive
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XtraWest
2 years, 2 months ago
correct answer
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chiiiweiii
2 years, 3 months ago
Correct Answer.
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amit3770
2 years, 5 months ago
3 rd one seems congnitive to me
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KMLearn3
2 years, 6 months ago
Page not found: https://demand-planning.com/2020/01/20/the-differences-between-descriptive-diagnostic-predictive-cognitive-analytics/%20https:/azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/answering-whats-happening-whys-happening-and-what-will-happen-with-iot-analytics/
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rohjay
2 years, 8 months ago
The third one is incorrect, it should be cognitive as it searches the company employees' names from some documents.
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JA2018
2 years, 8 months ago
Agreed. You can refer to this. What is Named Entity Recognition (NER) in Azure Cognitive Service for Language? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/language-service/named-entity-recognition/overview
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RajeshAzure
3 years, 3 months ago
correct answer
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at_me_jay
3 years, 2 months ago
Could you please explain why? It's not really a description of anything right?
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yomar
3 years, 4 months ago
-diagnostica -Prescriptive -cognitivo
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