This article aims at foundational knowledge of Data Analytics. After reading this article, you will be able to explain what Data Analytics actually is, list the key tools and technologies within the data ecosystem, look at the different roles associated with the modern data ecosystem, and will have a conceptual understanding of the data analysis lifecycle. Modern Data Ecosystem A modern data ecosystem includes a whole network of interconnected, independent, and continually evolving entities. It includes data that has to be integrated from disparate sources, analyze to generate insights, and finally collaborate with the active stakeholders to present and act on the insights hence obtained. Let’s start with the data sources . Data is available in a variety of structured and unstructured datasets, residing in text, images, videos, user conversations, social media platforms, the Internet of things (IoT devices), real-time events that stream data, legacy databases, and data sourced from
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