The predictive tools should be called R tools

[Gualigee]

The predictive tools should be called R tools as they have three categories. It's confusing to call descriptive tools and prescriptive tools as predictive tools.

[Jonathan-Sherman]

Personally I like the fact they're called descriptive, prescriptive and predictive rather than just R tools. Firstly it creates three distinct categories; Descriptive - what's happened? Predictive - what might happen? Prescriptive - what should I do? If we marked them all as R tools I think it might scare off a number of users thinking they aren't Alteryx's standard drag and drop configuration and require more programing than standard tools.

[Gualigee]

I agree, but my point is currently Alteryx call three types the same: predictive tools. 

[Gualigee]

In addition, my textbook has another category called diagnostic analytics which includes clustering analysis. Very confusing.

[mceleavey]

I agree with @Jonathan-Sherman ,

if you want to lump them all together in a group of R tools you are losing the functionality of what they are.

For example, I get that Time Series is a sub-set of predictive, but anyone using them tools also understands that, and so will get more information from being told the section pertains to predicting over time rather than a standard classification/regression predictive model.

M.