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Cognos Analytics 12 YouTube Video Series

By Rahul Gupta posted Fri December 22, 2023 11:49 AM

  

Greetings to all! 

We are very excited to highlight that for Cognos Analytics 12 we have launched a series of technical 'how to' videos on the IBM Helps YouTube Page under the Cognos Analytics Playlist! 

To follow along for future videos please bookmark and follow the Cognos Analytics Playlist

The videos we've covered so far for Cognos Analytics 12 include: 

  1. 2 Minute Product Tour  
  2. Nested Dashboards
  3. Add Uploaded Data
  4. Local Data Cache for Improved Performance
  5. Create a dashboard faster than making a cup of coffee
  6. Find your favorite Content
  7. Hide or show dashboard visualization header icons

If you have specific requests or ideas for videos you'd like to see - please feel free to comment below! 

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Fri January 12, 2024 04:51 AM

I agree. We always say its far easier for someone to comment on what's in front of them and say why it's wrong than start with a blank sheet.

Thu January 11, 2024 01:53 PM

That's a good point - Having the AI assistant explain why it created the specific dashboard and prompt what kind of dashboard would be helpful. 

It's important to distinguish that while the experienced developer may be able to specify what kind of dashboard they need and what the use case may be, a new user typically can't.

It is a significant difference and improvement to have a selection of automatically generated charts to use as a starting point instead of a blank canvas.

The automatic dashboard generation is designed to help first-time users lower the learning curve for people using the tool for the first time and getting started. 

Thu January 11, 2024 03:29 AM

Sales demonstration

user: "create dashboard"

AI: <creates a dashboard>

Real life

user: "create dashboard"

Experienced Developer: "why?"

Whilst I get the create dashboard is a shiny sales demo feature, a more intelligent assistant would ask about what the dashboard is to be used for. It would be good if after creating the dashboard the AI assistant could list out why it created that dashboard, what insights it hopes to help the user uncover, rather than just a random selection of charts.