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Business Analytics: Handbooks/Background

Providing Tools for Business Analytics Research

Dictionaries & Handbooks

These resources are great for quick look-ups of concepts and definitions.

Find topics and/or reviews of research

Items here provide theoretical background, point to models, and provide definitions. 

Gartner Content on Business Analytics & Big Data Applications

Gartner has a lot of specialized content in its Research Library of interest to people in business analytics fields:

  • Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
    • Big Data
    • Analytics
      includes sub-topics like advanced analytics, business activity monitoring, business pattern frameworks, content analysis, pattern seeking, predictive analytics, sentiment analysis, social analytics, speech analytics, supply chain analytics, text analysis, web analytics and more.
    • Business Intelligence and Decision Support
    • Data Science
  • Link to brows the full Research Library topics, including business applications by industry and by business function.

Other Useful Resources

Review articles

Sample titles include:

Handbooks on Data Analysis & Time Series