Analysis refers to dividing a whole into its separate components for individual examination. Data analysis is a process for … See more

Stephen Few described eight types of quantitative messages that users may attempt to understand or communicate from a set of data and the associated graphs used to help communicate the message. Customers … See more

Author Jonathan Koomey has recommended a series of best practices for understanding quantitative data. These include:
• Check raw data for anomalies prior to performing an analysis;
• Re-perform important c… See more

Barriers to effective analysis may exist among the analysts performing the data analysis or among the audience. Distinguishing fact from opinion, cognitive biases, and innumeracy are all challenges to sound d… See more

A data analytics approach can be used in order to predict energy consumption in buildings. The different steps of the data analysis process are carried out in order to realise smart buildings, where the building manageme… See more

This section contains rather technical explanations that may assist practitioners but are beyond the typical scope of a Wikipedia article.
The most important distinction between the initial data … See more