Predictive Analytics Using Rattle and Qlik Sense

Chapter 1. Getting Ready with Predictive Analytics

Analytics, predictive analytics, and data visualization are trendy topics today. The reasons are:

• Today a lot of internal and external data is available
• Technology to use this data has evolved a lot
• It is commonly accepted that there is a lot of value that can be extracted from data

As in many trendy topics, there is a lot of confusion around it. In this chapter, we will cover the following concepts:

• Introducing the key concepts of the book and tools we're going to use
• Defining analytics, predictive analytics, and data visualization
• Explaining the purpose of this book and the methodology we'll follow
• Covering the installation of the environment we'll use to create examples of applications in each chapter ...