English 'analytics' derives from Aristotle's 'Analytika' (his treatises on logic), from Greek 'analyein' (to unloose, to dissolve into elements), from 'ana-' (up) + 'lyein' (to loosen, from PIE *lew-) — making data analytics literally 'the art of loosening data apart into its components.'
The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics, especially in business decision-making.
From Greek 'analytika' (ἀναλυτικά), the collective title of Aristotle's treatises on formal logic. Derived from 'analytikos' (ἀναλυτικός, able to analyze), from 'analyein' (ἀναλύειν, to unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into constituent elements), built from 'ana-' (ἀνά, up, back, throughout) + 'lyein' (λύειν, to loosen, to release, to set free), from PIE *lew- (to loosen, to divide, to cut apart). The same PIE root *lew- underlies Latin 'luere' (to loosen, to atone) and Old
Analysis, paralysis, catalysis, and dialysis all share the Greek root 'lyein' (to loosen). Analysis loosens a whole into parts; paralysis is a loosening-beside (a dissolution of muscle control); catalysis is a loosening-down (a breaking apart accelerated by an agent); dialysis is a loosening-through (separation through a membrane). Every '-lysis' word is a different direction of unloosening.