Watson AnalyticsLinda Dest
March 24, 2016
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Fully Automated
Intelligence
Natural
Language
DialogueGuided Analytic
Discovery
Single Analytics
Experience
IBM Watson AnalyticsSelf-service analytics capabilities in the cloud
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IBM Watson AnalyticsFor Business Users, Business Analysts, & Experts
Business Analysts
Data ScientistsBusiness Users
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Watson and Watson Analytics
• Cognitive Services
• Unstructured data
• Machine Learning
• Structured data
• Leverage some cognitive services
• Additional analytical services
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Agility for the business + enterprise platforms helps turn ideas into opportunities
IBM Analytics Platform
Advanced user and IT managed analytics
Business user led analytics
1 change can improve everything10’s of insightful discoveries100’s of new questions each day
Transform the Business
Connector to Cognos Reports
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Watson Analytics
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Evolution of BI Market
Generation One
Generation Two
Generation Now
Descriptive
• Query, Reporting and Analysis
• OLAP
• Enterprise BI
• Statement Reporting
Biased
• Data Discovery
• Self-service
• Visualization
Unbiased
• Smart Data Discovery
• Cognitive query
• Storytelling
• Modernized for skillset
• Governed and ungoverned data
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• CMO of a major domestic airline called Oursin Airlines Inc.
• Board of directors perceives the organization has a low
customer satisfaction rating
• Contracted with market research agency and recently received
results of a market survey regarding airline consumers & their
recent travel experiences.
• Use Watson Analytics to execute three main tasks
• Confirm / refute board’s perception
• Identify factors that influence customer satisfaction rating
• Assemble key findings within a dashboard to share with the
board.
Today’s Scenario
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Orientation
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Data Load
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Twitter data
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Student Exercise – Create Twitter dataset
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Data quality score
• Indication of the suitability of the data
for advanced analysis
• Missing values, outliers, skewed
distribution
• Does not indicate the “correctness” of
the data
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Dataset options
• Delete
• Refresh
• Share
• Rename
Refining Data
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Refining Data
• Used to augment data set with
− Calculations
− Groupings
− Hierarchies
• Defining subsets of data by filtering
• Renaming column names for readability
• Making hidden columns visible
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Refine – Filtering Data
Exploring Data
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Explore: Starting points
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Explore: Modifying visualizations
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Explore - Suggestions
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Modify question
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Add a new attribute
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Modify visualization
Predictions
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Predict
• Identify patterns in historical data that can explain outcomes
− Which fields (inputs) are relevant in explaining a target outcome?
− What combination of fields (inputs) lead to different levels of the target
outcome
• Identify other interesting relationships in the data (un-related to the
target)
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Identify factors influencing satisfaction
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Identify correlations / increase predictive strength
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Identify rules contributing to lowest satisfaction
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Review Decision Rule Profiles
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Review Predictor Importance via Word Cloud
Save
visualizations
for use within
dashboard
Assemble
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Assemble – dragging and dropping fields
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Assemble - Changing chart types
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Assemble – Changing summaries
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Assemble - Collected content
• Click and drag any of the collected
content into the dashboard
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Assemble – manually adding a visualization
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Assemble – Filtering a dashboard
Global filters
Local filters
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Assemble – Styling and Properties
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