Which of the following is not an example of descriptive analytics?

Question

A report for last years revenue for a professional baseball team

A prediction of revenue over the next three months for a pharmaceutical company

A summary of last months marketing campaigns for beverage company

Results from a customer feedback survey sent out by travel agency

Answer 1

Descriptive Analytics focuses on what has happened in the past, and explains nothing about the future, or how the data came to be. Additionally, it requires that some analysis, commonly statistical summaries, are provided to give that description; this means raw data does not count as a descriptive analysis.

With this, I would focus on answers mentioning diagnostic, predictive, or prescriptive results, as those are your remaining categories of analytics.

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AJ