Critical Thinking Assignment

The concepts and principles of analytics have remained consistent while the scope of available data and the technology to process data into information has rapidly evolved over time.  Pick a historical point in time – greater than five years ago. Describe the field of analytics at that time. Explain the technology available and the technology commonly used for analytics at that time. Finally, discuss any limitations in the five-step Business Analytics process model (Acquisition, Preparation, Analysis, Visualization, Interpretation) prevalent at that time.   Provide a minimum of four references to support your arguments Unlike your other critical thinking assignments, all references for this week’s assignment must be greater than five years old.  You must provide a link for each reference for my review.  This assignment contains multiple questions and topics. Do not use bullets or numbers to answer the questions.  Your paper needs to be an essay. You need to integrate the multiple questions and topics into a single cohesive narrative.