{"id":2797,"date":"2017-02-22T15:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/ethos\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2017-03-15T17:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T16:26:40","slug":"public-ethos-15-explore-your-data-with-watson-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.itu.dk\/ethoslab\/2017\/02\/22\/public-ethos-15-explore-your-data-with-watson-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"public ETHOS #15: Explore your data with Watson Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/analytics\/watson-analytics\/us-en\/\">Watson Analytics<\/a>&nbsp;is IBM\u2019s cloud based business intelligence and analytics service &#8211; join two Watson Analytics workshops and become an expert in exploring and visualizing your data with the tool.<\/p>\n<p>Watson Analytics&nbsp;is most famously known for being based off the computer program which&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/ken_jennings_watson_jeopardy_and_me_the_obsolete_know_it_all?language=en\">defeated Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings<\/a>. IBM has since developed the Watson software and now use it to offer everything from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/smarterplanet\/us\/en\/ibmwatson\/watson-oncology.html\">data-based oncology diagnostics<\/a>&nbsp;to answering questions about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/marketplace\/cloud\/social-media-data-analysis\/us\/en-us\">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 and reveals patterns in your data.<\/p>\n<p>To help you get started with Watson Analytics, ETHOS lab hosts 2 workshops in collaboration with IBM<em>.&nbsp;<\/em>With a great expertise in the tool, Morten&nbsp;Albrechtsen, Peter Stilling, and Kristine Falk Olsen from IBM Denmark have been invited to instruct in its use<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop version 1.0:<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>An introduction to the tool and the&nbsp;<em>do and don\u2019ts<\/em>&nbsp;for creating a data set.<br \/>\n<strong>Workshop version 2.0:<\/strong>Hands-on practices with the tool. Bring your own data set and get professional help to explore and visualize your data. IBM will provide some preset data sets to use if you don\u2019t have your own data.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sign up for the workshops are required in order for us to send detailed information and licence keys for the program prior to the workshop.<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdo8rX4R7CrYcxDKHeXL0FTOSnMFbaDmJcSHT-0WCkT9PTDwA\/viewform\">&nbsp;Sign up&nbsp;here<\/a><\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Morten&nbsp;Albrechtsen&nbsp;is technical specialist at IBM Denmark with&nbsp;an expertise in business intelligence and analytics and in&nbsp;IBM financial and&nbsp;operational performance management.&nbsp;<br \/>\nPeter Stilling is tech sales Graduate in Analytics at IBM Denmark. Peter works with IBM&#8217;s tool Watson Analytics and Data Science Experience.<br \/>\nBoth workshops are in English.<br \/>\nLunch break included<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Workshop version 1.0: March 8 2017, 11.00-14.00<br \/>\nWorkshop version 2.0:&nbsp;March 15 2017, 11.00-14.00<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/761720627316007\/\">Join the Facebook event here.<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Place:&nbsp;<\/strong>Auditorium 2&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ITU address:<br \/>\n<\/strong>IT-University of Copenhagen<br \/>\nRued Langgaardsvej 7<br \/>\nDK-2300 Copenhagen S<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watson Analytics&nbsp;is IBM\u2019s cloud based business intelligence and analytics service &#8211; join two Watson Analytics workshops and become an expert in exploring and visualizing your data with the tool. 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