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==Real topic or just jargon?==
Is a distinction between Analytics and Analysis really needed?  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/89.197.157.46|89.197.157.46]] ([[User talk:89.197.157.46#top|talk]]) 15:21, 12 July 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

: There is a distinction between ''analysis'' and ''analytics''. Both terms are data-driven. However, ''analytics'' is a much broader term that includes ''analysis'', but starts first with (data) wrangling, pre-processing, then analysis, and also includes modeling, inference, and visualization.  [[Special:Contributions/141.213.169.143|141.213.169.143]] ([[User talk:141.213.169.143|talk]]) 21:01, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
::I personally still could not see a difference. I honestly think this article should be merged with [[data analysis]]. [[User:Tommyren|Tommyren]] ([[User talk:Tommyren|talk]]) 17:51, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
::Source #4, the David Park article, says that analysis is a subset of analytics. However, this website ([https://www.watershedlrs.com/blog/business-and-data-alignment/difference-between-analytics-and-analysis/#:~:text=While%20analytics%20and%20analysis%20are,the%20systematic%20examination%20of%20data. https://www.watershedlrs.com/blog/business-and-data-alignment/difference-between-analytics-and-analysis/#:~:text=While%20analytics%20and%20analysis%20are,the%20systematic%20examination%20of%20data.]) seems to suggest just the opposite. Neither sources seem particularly reliable, as they do not come from peer-reviewed or particularly renowned sources.  [[User:Tommyren|Tommyren]] ([[User talk:Tommyren|talk]]) 15:13, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
:::{{re|Tommyren}} See [[Talk:Data mining#Merge Analytics into Data mining]]. I have analytically taken up the challenge of being innovatively positively proactively active in suggesting a strategic decision to maximise performance results of this set of Wikipedia pages. If the previous sentence sounds like nonsense, then just see the merge proposal. :) [[User:Boud|Boud]] ([[User talk:Boud|talk]]) 15:14, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
::The only substantive difference between analytics and analysis is that "analysis" is the active contemplation of information, without regard for its source, and "analytics" is at its root the analysis of data-information encoded in some media from which it can subsequently be read.
::In practical terms analytics is shorthand for data analysis. One of the problems with the nomenclature is the influence of marketeering that seeks to, and has largely been successful at, framing analytics as encompassing the universe of electronic data-processing technologies and their applications.
::Proponents of large, complex, complicated technology-based data manipulation & sophisticated analysis, e.g. statistical model-fitting, seek to frame analytics' essence in the broadest possible terms.
::One of the largely unacknowledged truths of analytics is that, contrary to the conventional analytics paradigm, data analysis is the first, universal, and last, activity in all scenarios; nothing can happen with data until it is analyzed and understood to at least a reasonably robust degree, nothing of valuse can be done with it unless analysis of the inputs and outputs of every data-manipulation operation verify correctness, and no sense can be made of processed data except through its analysis. [[User:CGerrard|CGerrard]] ([[User talk:CGerrard|talk]]) 19:40, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

==Suggesting adding "Health Analytics" section==
It may be useful to add another section, ''Health Analytics'', to the [[Analytics#Applications]] section.
This could include an expansion of the following: 
: ''Health analytics'' is the process of translating biomedical data and healthcare information obtained in medical, biological, clinical, public health, and laboratory settings to relevant clinical decision-support information that can be used to diagnose disease, decide on medical treatments, and prognosticate health-related outcomes <ref name="Dinov_DSPA_2018">{{Cite book|language=english|author1=Dinov, ID.|title= Data Science and Predictive Analytics: Biomedical and Health Applications using R|section=Motivation|place=Cham, Switzerland|publisher=Springer, Computer Science|date=2018|isbn=978-3-319-72346-4}}</ref>. All health analytical systems rely on [[informatics]], [[computer science]], [[applied mathematics]], [[computational statistics]], model-based and model-free [[artificial intelligence]], and [[machine learning]] techniques.
: See also [[Health_care_analytics]]. [[Special:Contributions/141.213.169.143|141.213.169.143]] ([[User talk:141.213.169.143|talk]]) 21:01, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

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== Sources ==

I added sources to some paragraphs, but there are still several points of information for which I could not find a reliable source. I am also not sure about the reliability of several sources. I added new tags for these issues. [[User:Tommyren|Tommyren]] ([[User talk:Tommyren|talk]]) 16:10, 17 January 2022 (UTC)