Prescriptive Data Science: Beyond Predictive Data Science

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(1) Descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive data science

(2) Required skill-sets to excel in prescriptive data science

(3) key components of prescriptive data science and common misconception

As companies become more mature with data science, predictive data science becomes more of table stakes. Prescriptive data science are gaining more importance in setting the leaders in the data science and artificial intelligence apart from other companies. In this article, I will discuss (1) different types of data science and their relevance with the organizational maturity in data science and analytics, (2) required skill-sets to excel in prescriptive data science, and (3) key components of prescriptive data science and common misconception.