{"id":1594,"date":"2016-04-25T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/ethos\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2016-05-09T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:00:02","slug":"publicethos-6-intro-to-watson-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/ethoslab\/2016\/04\/25\/publicethos-6-intro-to-watson-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"publicETHOS #7: Intro to Watson Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/analytics\/watson-analytics\/us-en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watson Analytics<\/a> is IBM&#8217;s new cloud based business intelligence and analytics service &#8211; join this\u00a0publicETHOS workshop to discover how you can use Watson for your projects. Watson Analytics\u00a0is most famously known for being based off the computer program which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ken_jennings_watson_jeopardy_and_me_the_obsolete_know_it_all?language=en\" target=\"_blank\">defeated Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings<\/a>. IBM has since developed the Watson software and now use it to offer everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/smarterplanet\/us\/en\/ibmwatson\/watson-oncology.html\" target=\"_blank\">data-based oncology diagnostics<\/a>\u00a0to answering questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/marketplace\/cloud\/social-media-data-analysis\/us\/en-us\" target=\"_blank\">social media stats<\/a>. With Watson Analytics IBM aims to bring easy data analytics to business, students and organisations. Watson Analytics visualizes quantitative data, suggests questions you can ask of \u00a0and reveals patterns in your data.<\/p>\n<p>To help us getting started with Watson Analytics, Thomas Prien-Larsen from IBM will guest the ITU and instruct in its use.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sign up for the workshop is not required.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Slides from the workshop are available <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/folderview?id=0B83tD06jghxHTjR0eGVBRGxKa28&amp;usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Thomas Prien-Larsen is a technical sales assistant at IBM whose main expertise is to demonstrate and instruct in the use of Watson Analytics. He also works with maintaining the software behind Watson, and so has great understanding of its\u00a0capacities. He has previously instructed in the use of Watson Analytics multiple times, including at the ITU.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><strong>Time:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>May\u00a09 2016, 13:00-16:00<strong><br \/>\n<strong>Place:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>2A52<br \/>\nJoin the Facebook event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1615897698732745\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe event will be in English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ITU address:<br \/>\n<\/strong>IT-University of Copenhagen<br \/>\nRued Langgaardsvej 7<br \/>\nDK-2300 Copenhagen S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watson Analytics is IBM&#8217;s new cloud based business intelligence and analytics service &#8211; join this\u00a0publicETHOS workshop to discover how you can use Watson for your projects. 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