Year-to-Date Sales by Region

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The correct answer is C. descriptive.

Descriptive analytics is the process of analyzing data to describe, summarize, and understand past events. It is the most basic type of analytics and focuses on providing insights into what has happened in the past, often through visualizations such as charts and graphs.

In this case, a bar chart showing year-to-date sales by region would fall under descriptive analytics because it is providing a visual summary of past sales data. It is not attempting to predict future sales (predictive analytics), prescribe actions to improve sales (prescriptive analytics), or identify the root cause of sales performance (diagnostic analytics).

To summarize, descriptive analytics is used to understand what has happened in the past, while predictive, prescriptive, and diagnostic analytics are used to make predictions, recommendations, and identify root causes, respectively.