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AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

  • 1.  AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Community Leadership
    Posted Fri May 24, 2019 02:23 PM
    Edited by System Wed November 01, 2023 04:51 PM
    We are data science and AI experts at IBM - ask us anything about Watson Studio!

    Hello IBM Community! We are IBM data scientists working on AI and machine learning problems across genomics, transportation, energy, agriculture, and more. Ask us anything about IBM's Watson Studio and its newest features, enhancements and use cases. 

    Between us, we are Kaggle Grandmasters, PhD mathematicians, inventors, and developers. We're based in labs around the world, but collaborate every day to build ways for artificial intelligence to address the world's most complex problems. Many of us also support IBM's Machine Learning Hubs, located across three continents, where we work with industry experts on their boldest AI aspirations. 

    We are: 
    • Jean Francois Puget - Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning and Optimization; Kaggle Grandmaster
    • Horst Samulowitz - Research Manager and Research Staff Member in Artificial Intelligence, IBM Research
    • Marius Danciu - Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM), Watson Machine Learning
    • Greg Filla - Offering Manager, AutoAI, Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning
    • Yin Chen - Offering Manager, Deep Learning, Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning
    • Julianna Delua - Portfolio Manager, Data and AI

    Start posting your questions in the discussion thread now, and join us live for the virtual discussion on Thursday, June 13 at 1
    1:00am ET/  8:00am PT (click to add to calendar). 


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    Christina Howell
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    #WatsonStudio


  • 2.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Mon May 27, 2019 10:47 AM
    Hello, great news, my name is Emmanuel from Mexico and I want to make my career plan as a data scientist
    In studio what recommend me for data visualization, I used Cognos Analytics but frequently the service was not available and the environment is very slow, I would like to connect the IBM Maximo tool with Watson and show information about incidents, assets and basically everything,

    you very much

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    Emmanuel Gonzalez Sanchez
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  • 3.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Tue May 28, 2019 09:38 AM
    Hello Emmanuel,

    Please PM, I can guide you with this.

    Watson Studio allows you to connect to databases e.g. your Maximo database and read data directly from them for analysis.

    You'll need to be a bit more specific in exactly what outcomes you're looking to get out of the project but we can discuss this too.

    Best regards


    Femi



    Sent from Samsung tablet





  • 4.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu May 30, 2019 02:22 PM
    Hi Christina,

    I would like to ask about the current differences between versions of Watson Studio (Cloud, Local & Desktop) and why these versions are different now. Do you have a plan in the near future to align all the 3 versions so that they all have the same ? 

    Thanks a lot.
    Ahmed Lashin.

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    Ahmed Lashin
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  • 5.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Fri May 31, 2019 07:14 PM
    Hi Ahmed!

    We recently shipped Watson Studio Local 2.0 with exactly that goal, bring the cloud and local version together and aligned! You can learn more here: https://medium.com/ibm-watson/accelerate-your-data-science-life-cycle-using-ibm-watson-studio-2-0-808da0ca1d87

    Desktop will always be a little bit different - and the goal here is to have a native experience that is great for Desktop, optimized to run on macOS and Windows.

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    ARMAND RUIZ GABERNET
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  • 6.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:31 AM
    @Armand Ruiz ​are WSL and WSC going to align in terms of UI (i.e., how one accesses projects, deployment, admin consoles)? I admit that I haven't had time to play with WSL 2.0 yet, but as of 1.2.x the user experience feels quite different to me.

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    CHERYLANNE HOWARD
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  • 7.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:36 AM
    Hi @CHERY HOWARD - Yes!  2.0 was a major step forward towards this alignment.  We are working very hard to deliver a common experience across Watson Studio Cloud and Local. 

    Thanks - ​

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    GREG FILLA
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  • 8.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu May 30, 2019 02:22 PM
    Dear Christina,

    I would like to ask you about the differences between the current versions of Watson Studio (Cloud, Local and Desktop).

    Do you have any plans in the near future to align all the 3 versions so that they all have the same features?
    Thanks a lot.
    Ahmed Lashin.


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    Ahmed Lashin
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  • 9.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Fri May 31, 2019 09:03 AM
    Hope to know more about the current state and future direction of AutoAI/AutoML.


  • 10.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:12 AM

    @Tian  You can find an overvi ​ew of auto ai here: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-studio/autoai

    It has been GAed end of May and you can now try it.

    We plan to add more features and capabilities on a regular basis, and also improve performance.  Stay tuned.



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    JEAN FRANCOIS PUGET
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  • 11.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:42 AM
    @TIAN HUAT TAN  we are moving to unify user experience, make it easier for data scientists to further finetune models from AutoAI​​ and integrate other AI assets from IBM.  We welcome more feedback here.  Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILCsbh9IKT0

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    Julianna Delua
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  • 12.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Fri May 31, 2019 09:04 AM
    It is nice to meet you and to know what your background is. I know I can learn a lot from this group. I am a new System Administrator located at Columbia, Missouri Center. I am on a learning path to know more about what IBM offers and to understand more in-depth their services so that I can perform my job better. I will be able to guide a Client when they need help in a specific area.  

    Thank You,
    Yolanda Hernandez

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    Yolanda Hernandez
    System Admin Apprentice
    IBM
    Columbia, MO.
    573-219-5895
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  • 13.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:14 AM
    @Yolanda your help is most welcome. ​  Feel free to ping us here or via IBM internal means as you see fit.

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    JEAN FRANCOIS PUGET
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  • 14.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Wed June 05, 2019 06:03 PM
    Edited by System Wed November 01, 2023 04:51 PM
    Hello Christina!
    Is it possible to use Watson Assistant for database analysis in order to get more appropriate responses? If yes, how?
    If not, can we create a communication channel between Watson Assistant and Watson Studio?  If yes, how?

    Regards!

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    Konan Jean-Claude Kouassi
    Practice Makes Perfect!
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  • 15.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:54 AM
    @Konan Jean-Claude Kouassi  We can create associated services from Watson Studio using API for custom apps and others. We need to learn a bit more about your use cases  but you can learn more here including Watson Discovery   https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/getting-started/assoc-services.html?linkInPage=true 

    If you enabled Watson Assistant with API, we should be able to handle and should verify with our implementation.  I found this in github https://github.com/IBM/watson-nao-robot  to discuss integration of Watson Studio and Watson Assistant

    Watson Discovery
    With the Watson Discovery service, you can use APIs in notebooks to add a cognitive search and content analytics engine to applications to identify patterns, trends and actionable insights that drive better decision-making. Securely unify structured and unstructured data with pre-enriched content, and use a simplified query language to eliminate the need for manual filtering of results. See Getting started tutorial. ​

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    Julianna Delua
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  • 16.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Wed June 12, 2019 12:23 PM
    Hi, 

    Can you advise on how  to work collaboratively with WSC within a team ? For instance :
    - each one his own NB ?
    - work separately on different chunk ?
    - how do you merge work ?
    - how do you share intermediate outputs of your 'pipeline'...
    ...
    What is your POV vs WSC ?

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    MICHEL LE
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  • 17.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:21 AM
    @Michel what is WSC ? ;)  Assuming it is Watson Studio, answer may depend on who you work with.  In my experience, best is to work alone on a given notebook.  When you are done you commit it and other team member can fork it and make their changes. You share output via assets in your project. ​

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    JEAN FRANCOIS PUGET
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  • 18.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:51 AM
    Hi, 

    Watson Studio Cloud

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    MICHEL LE
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  • 19.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:29 AM
    Hi Michel, In WSC every collaborator with Editor or Admin role can create their own Notebook in the same project, and each Notebook are assigned separate environment so the team can work concurrently, intermediate outputs can be saved in cloud object storage , database and many other data sources, which can be shared as project assets through supported connections: https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/manage-data/conn_types.html

    Here is a video of how to add collaborator in WSC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEAlXBDjM08

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    YIN CHEN
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  • 20.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 10:19 AM
    I am Jean-François Puget, currently technical lead for machine learning offerings, which includes Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning, and Watson Openscale.  I also practice machine learning on customer projects and IBM projects.  Last, I enter machine learning competitions on Kaggle where I am a Competion Granmaster and also top Discussion Grandmaster.  My Kaggle handle is CPMP.  Machine Learning has been a lifetime topic of interest for me as I hold a PhD in that field from previous millennium.

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    JEAN FRANCOIS PUGET
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  • 21.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:03 AM
    Hello, everyone.  I am Julianna Delua, Data and AI SME, responsible for the Watson Studio family.  Look forward to our discussion today.

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    Julianna Delua
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  • 22.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:09 AM
    Hi, I am Horst Samulowitz from IBM Research and I am working on automating AI. The main idea is to leverage AI itself to automate it. To that end we have employed techniques from Multi-arm bandits, Reinforcement Learning to Mathematical Optimization in order to tackle problems such as automated model selection and feature engineering.

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    HORST SAMULOWITZ
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  • 23.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:13 AM
    Hi Horst,

    How does AutoAI compare to Watson Machine Learning in terms of the techniques/algorithms used for model selection.

    - Zeydy

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    Zeydy Ortiz
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  • 24.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:44 AM

    Hi @Zeydy Ortiz Watson ML ModelBuilder is only for Spark ML, and the automated workflow in it is very simple.  It only performs  ​basic data cleaning, then run different models concurrently, and present them in their merit order.

    Auto AI goes way beyond.  First it leverages Python ecosystem instead of being limited to Spark ML.  It therefore can explore many more algorithms.  Second, also explores advanced feature engineering, something model builder was not doing at all.



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    JEAN FRANCOIS PUGET
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  • 25.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:13 AM
    What does AMA stand for?

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    Jean-Georges Perrin / IBM Champion x11
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  • 26.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    IBM Champion
    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:15 AM
    Found it - Ask Me Anything :)

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    Jean-Georges Perrin / IBM Champion x11
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  • 27.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:16 AM
    Hey @Jean-Georges Perrin It means Ask Me Anything ​

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    Julianna Delua
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  • 28.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:17 AM
    Ask Me Anithyng about....

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    Paulo Klein
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  • 29.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:15 AM
    Hey everyone!

    I am Greg Filla, Product Manager for AutoAI.  I get to work with our incredible research, engineering, and design teams to make AutoAI a feature integrated with Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning.  These are offerings from IBM that help teams get more value from their data specifically around building AI/ML solutions.  I previously worked as a data scientist at IBM and would have loved to use these tools to make my job easier :) Ask me anything!


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    Greg Filla
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  • 30.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:18 AM
    Can Watson AI Platform be used to create ML and DL Algorithms that have a way with categorizing and extracting word patterns across sample text to identify which looks Spam?
    Actually, I am a student and am in the way of creating an ML Model (preferably on Watson) to integrate it with my Action on Google Assistant to fight and categorize Fake News.


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    Ayush Anand
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  • 31.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:24 AM
    You can use most popular and best open source to create customer machine learning models with Watson Studio.  This includes Deep learning frameworks such as Keras TensorFlow and Pytorch.  With these you can build models to detect spam provided you have enough training data.

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    JEAN FRANCOIS PUGET
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  • 32.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 11:53 AM
    Hi, I have three questions.

    (1) CSV on file system. Still today the most relevant data ingestion is classic CSV. Fact, may we like it or not. One of the most asked features is a 'real file system' that I can work with. Will there be a classic FS that we can work with? Access from Jupyter? Showstopper: By now my students still use cloud9 with Jupyter and conda to work with a real OS on data science.

    (2) Additional 'real' OS programs. We can use pip, but there are also more fundamental helper programs that must be installed in the OS, examples in our domain (Chemistry) are RDKit or Pymol. Is there a possibility to configure more down to the OS than just pip? 

    (3) Using nodes/plugins from Eclipse-based Programs. One example is KNIME or RapidMinder where we have a lot of open source Java-based plugins supporting our business domain. Will SPSS be able to use and load these external plugins?

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    Thorsten Gressling
    Business Leader Artificial Intelligence
    ARS Computer and Consulting GmbH
    München
    +491725328003
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  • 33.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 12:11 PM
    I'm thinking that IBM Watson uses a triple layer approach.
    An industry layer, custom, and a public layer. Along with object storage.
    Question:
    As we are Advance life support, I and most of the team are senior clinicians. Do we need a fourth layer?
    A training, Medical Data Science layer. OR one for the clinical/medocal products that can be built.
     Preferred Accessibility Setting:
    Bullet Pointed and Task Orientated
    Martin Anderson
    Bloomberg Professor,
    Clinical Alchemist Facebook
    Clinical Business Architect NHS
    Dev'Ops Service Integration Technology Partner Amazon | Google | Facebook
    Clin'Ops Partner
    PNP CC, BscEc, DIpHe Nursing, AutNurPra , ANP, NP, NMP, ENP, TICS.
    Graduate Certificate In Electrocardiography
    Microsoft Clinical Modern Business Partner
    Microsoft Azure Developer Benefit Program
    IBM Business Blockchain Badge Holder
    020 8396 4356 07440787899 ONC
    IBM Cloud X2 Badge Holder
    IBM Data Science Practitioner
    Pulse Medic, London South Bank University, The Technopark, SE1 6LN


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    martin Anderson
    MD Pulse medic
    ESSEx
    7440787899
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  • 34.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 12:39 PM
    @Martin Anderson  It is true that depending on the level of specialization, organizations need to add more layers.  For medical specific implementation, while you can use some of the modular components and services such as visual recognition a ​nd natural language classification, it would make sense to have medical specific data science layer where sub component can be training for specific personnel like checklists as well as personnel availability, etc for insight and prediction.  Watson Studio has been used extensively for healthcare and medical communities and Decision optimization for Watson Studio  https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/decision-optimization-for-watson-studio/details  can be used to take the machine learning prediction and further optimize your resources - fleet, personnel, equipment for clinical needs.

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    Julianna Delua
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  • 35.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 12:29 PM

    @Thorsen Gressling let me try to answer your questions.

    (1) We support CSV files in Watson Studio, be it on cloud or local.  With the local version you can use the underlying filesystem as you see fit.​​ For cloud, is you question about the ability to create directories to save csv files?  We provide various ways to group and view your assets, that may be more convenient than a pseudo file system on the cloud.  You mention anaconda.  We provide runtimes with anaconda in Watson Studio.  Our notebooks are Jupyter notebooks.  And yes, you can access csv files from Jupyter notebooks in Watson Studio.  pandas.read_csv() is probably the most used function in Watson Studio notebooks ;)

    (2) You can also use conda install, and if need be you can create your own Docker container with any additional software you need.

    (3) Can you provide examples of Eclipse Plug Ins you find interesting?  Our take is that we separate the world of data science where one builds model, and the developer world where one consumes models.  The former can be done with Watson Studio, using Python ecosystem, or R, or SPSS, and the latter with Watson Machine Learning.  Once trained, models and pipelines are exported from Watson Studio to Watson ML.  There they can be deployed as web services, or run as batch against datasets.  They can also be applied to streamed data.  When deployed as a rest service, any kind of application and service can call the rest endpoint, and you can work with Java, or any other language you'd like.  There is no need to have data scientists work with Java nor to have developers work with Python ML/DL packages.



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    JEAN FRANCOIS PUGET
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  • 36.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 12:35 PM
    Edited by System Wed November 01, 2023 04:52 PM
    Hi @Thorsten Gressling - thanks for your questions!

    1. We support CSVs today for Watson Studio on Cloud (and with AutoAI).  The primary storage service is Cloud Object Storage (COS), which is a standard service across public cloud use cases no matter what cloud being used.  There are a number of benefits of using COS over a traditional filesystem, for example API access for any asset stored in a COS bucket.  We know this is a new skill set for data scientists moving from on prem to cloud so we offer libraries to help, e.g. Project-lib - https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/project-lib-python.html?audience=wdp&context=wdp

    2.  This is not yet supported for Watson Studio Cloud, but we are exploring how to enable this in a secure way.  We do enable pip /conda installs at the environment customization level.  We also allow greater environment customization in Watson Studio Local which is a private cloud offering -as Jean Francois mentioned in his comment re: docker customization.

    3. Do you mean open source / community built extensions for SPSS?  We do support this for SPSS Modeler outside of Watson Studio, we are planning to support similar open source integrations for Modeler flows in Watson Studio  - stay tuned for these updates.

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    GREG FILLA
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  • 37.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 12:43 PM

    This is a great news that we can ask questions to experts.

    I too like to build my career in data science and I have started preparing for it but it is not much practical, So my question is how do I use watson studio for practicals on machine learning ?

    What are the steps that to load the data set and use it for practice.

    Thank you.



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    Priyanka Dhanraj Shinde
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  • 38.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 12:54 PM
    @Priyanka Dhanraj Shinde Many people use watson studio to get started and do more practicing.  We have many tutorials and this Data Refinery for shaping and visualizing data may be interesting  for you https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/refinery/dr_tutorial.html

    You can get started by signing up https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/registration/stepone?context=wdp&apps=all if you have not done so.  Good luck in building your data science career!


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    Julianna Delua
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  • 39.  RE: AMA with Watson Studio Data Scientists on June 13

    Community Leadership
    Posted Thu June 13, 2019 12:59 PM
    Thanks @JEAN FRANCOIS PUGET, @YIN CHEN, @Julianna Delua, @HORST SAMULOWITZ, and @Greg Filla for your responses and great discussion. 

    A few general questions floated around that I gathered up below. Look forward to hearing your answers!

      1. Which path of practical AI is better - go to university and get a PhD or learn on the job?
      2. What's a day in your life look like? 
      3. What hobbies do you have outside of datascience
      4. What's it like working in IBM Research? 
      5. What are your favorite places to learn about data science? 
      6. Who are your mentors or 'famous' figures in industry? 
    ​​​​​​​​

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    Christina Howell
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