Hello all!
I am Cosimo, a year 8 student from Australia, and I would like to talk about my first experience with IBM Cognos.
I have just had a look at the function of Cognos, and Cognos in action. I believe that it is brilliant that an AI can do very intense and time consuming data analysis in just a few minutes.
On a first glance, Cognos seems like Excel's data analysis, with charts, graphs and more.
I then took a deeper look and I found out that it insane and very useful.
With @Ralf Roeber we used a test dataset which had to do with work hours for specific projects across 6 years, and what I found was amazing. Within a few minutes, Cognos had generated a bar graph, which had many conditions, (Name, year, project, time, user, etc) and it was very accurate. Cognos had then generated a few patterns, which showed projections of future data, which seems very cool.
However, IBM Cognos may have its limitations, due to the fact that you cannot have infinite datasets, and it could create false predictions, due to the fact that it does not know certain things. In our case, it was projected that in the next year, an employee would work more hours than a different employee, however, the first employee had stopped working as a whole.
In summary, I believe that IBM Cognos is an amazing tool, and is incredibly useful, since it could do hours, if not, days of data analysis, in just a few minutes. Even though that it has its limitations, since it is an AI and not human, I believe that IBM Cognos is brilliant, and could change how we analyse data forever.
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Cosimo Aloi
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