Predictive Analytics

A type of business analytics.

Predictive analytics is a more advanced method of data analysis that uses probabilities to make assessments of what could happen in the future.

  • used to identify the likelihood of future outcomes based on historical data
  • To make predictions, machine learning algorithms are often used to process existing data and fill in the missing data with the best possible guesses
  • The predictions can be used to solve problems and identify opportunities for growth