A Data Analyst sees what data he has. A Data Scientist imagines what data he is lacking.
Information analysis provides insight into :
of the business.
The analyse of data is made from many perspectives. See:
Analytics is all about gaining insights from the data for better decision making.
Analytics = Statistical estimation and prediction
Such problems as computing covariance between daily closing prices of 15,000 the stocks for the last 10 years, usually require array operations which are very hard to do in RDBMS.
Mike Drummond: An airline pilot doesn’t look out the window when he’s flying the plane. he looks at his instruments, and you guys have to do the same thing.
Rather than flooding the sunglasses with data, only relevant decisions and data are projected. No need for the helmsman to interpret the data, he needed to simply act on the decision points.