Picture Courtesy Wix.com Introduction There are 4 primary types of analytics viz.,  Descriptive analytics : To understand what happened Diagnostic analytics: To explain why it happened Predictive analytics: To predict what might happen in the future, and Prescriptive analytics: To recommend what should be done to achieve the best possible  outcome. In this blog I would like to explain the correlation between Predictive and Prescriptive analysis with a real world example, base