Analysis is focused on understanding the past; what happened and why it happened. Analytics focuses on why it happened and what will happen in the future.
Source: Wikipeida
- Some treat data analysis as a process, part of data analytics, while data analytics as a discipline.
- Data analysis answers, “What happened?” while data analytics answers, “Why, and What will happen next?“
- Data analysis relies on descriptive statistics, while data analytics relies on inferential statistics.