an·a·lyt·ics
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Definition of analytics
: the method of logical analysis
Examples of analytics in a Sentence
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Adding the distance from a noisy highway, for example, made the algorithm more accurate, said James Marshall, its director of real estate analytics products. — R.a. Schuetz, Houston Chronicle, "Your next property appraisal may come from a computer," 30 Aug. 2019 Via accounted for less than 1% of total ride share sales for the Chicago Metro area for the month of June, according to Second Measure, an analytics platform. — Mary Wisniewski, chicagotribune.com, "Via rideshare expands to entire city; offers $2.50 rides to and from transit stops," 6 Aug. 2019 The predictive analytics program is first rolled out to Diageo’s most important markets, the CFO said. — Nina Trentmann, WSJ, "Predictive Analytics Give a Boost to Diageo’s Cost-Savings Efforts," 25 Apr. 2019 Explained like that, analytics makes a lot of common sense. — Ed Rendell, Philly.com, "Rendell: Great time to be a Philly sports fan," 20 Apr. 2018 Sessions said Louisville and others will benefit from a data analytics program that can calculate which doctors are prescribing the most pain pills, which pharmacies are dispensing the most and who has the most patients who end up dead. — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, "Doctor fraud crackdown on opioid epidemic involves Louisville," 28 June 2018 Eugene Lee, cofounder of ChannelMeter, a software analytics service for video creators, says that Instagram’s delay on announcing a plan to pay its creators is a mistake. — Natasha Mascarenhas, SFChronicle.com, "Instagram, in challenge to YouTube, unveils new IGTV video app," 20 June 2018 Rolen is the fifth-best defender ever at third base according to one analytics site, Fangraphs, and in the top 20 of all time by traditional stats such as fielding percentage. — Ben Rowen, The Atlantic, "Finding the Formula for Team Chemistry," 15 June 2018 FanGraphs, an analytics site, also rated the 2012 San Diego farm system first. — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Revisiting a Padres' draft-and-farm hype train," 11 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'analytics.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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