Data analytics (DA) is the process of examining data sets in order to draw conclusions about the information they contain, increasingly with the aid of specialized systems and software. Data analytics technologies and techniques are widely used in commercial industries to enable organizations to make more-informed business decisions and by scientists and researchers to verify or disprove scientific models, theories and hypotheses. Data analysts collect process and perform statistical analyses of data. Their skills may not be as advanced as data scientists, but their goals are the same – to discover how data can be used to answer questions and solve problems.
