ABSTRACT
This chapter covers the topic of data analytics. It discusses its evolution and its types so that the reader will have a thorough grounding in the technique. This chapter will allow the reader to understand both the necessity for this approach and its effect in a dynamic business environment. This chapter should enable the reader to identify how analytics can be used in the industrial process. To make it interesting, real examples are provided. This chapter explores different analytics tools and their particular uses which should enable readers to integrate analytics into a wide range of industrial processes.
