Echoing @Hafsah Lakhany 's warm welcome, I am the community manager for Watson Studio, and I look forward to supporting this group by monitoring feedback and questions, providing useful information and tools, and building out a vibrant ecosystem for users to share ideas and use cases, ask for advice, and troubleshoot. ​

A quick tour of what you'll see in the Watson Studio group: 

Discussion: As the primary function for community, we invite all of our members to use the discussion board as a place to introduce yourselves, share some background on your experience with machine learning, ask any questions or advice to other members and experts, or put out a call to action. Since we're brand new, I encourage everyone to reply to this thread with a brief introduction and how you may have used Watson Studio or intend to. 

News: Here you'll find an integration of news sources relevant to the Watson Studio product and the overall topic of machine learning. This is where you'll also find community blogs, generated by both members and product experts. If you're interested in becoming a blogger on IBM Community, please reach out to me here!  The overall Community platform hosts over 100,000 members across 10 different topic areas. 

Group resources: Want to dig into the Watson Studio experience? Browse the Resource tab for downloads and tutorials to get started with the tool, and review use cases including an analysis on the 2016 election. Are there any other resources you'd like to see here? 

Learn: We offer free courses for our community members! Our learn tab contains a list of Data Science courses geared toward Watson Studio and Machine Learning, many of which contain free downloads and trials of products. Stay tuned here for new classes plus webinars to get deeper knowledge of Watson Studio's functions, including Deep dive on feature engineering, which walks through AutoAI with offering manager @GREG FILLA, IBM Researcher Udayan Khurana, and full stack developer Nick Mazzitelli. Interested in running a webinar on Watson Studio? Drop me a line. 

Support:  Share ideas with us on Aha!, submit a support ticket, read our FAQ and dig into the product documentation. Everything you need to get started with Watson Studio is right here at your fingertips!

You'll also see a leaderboard on the left side of the home page. Earn points for every post that you contribute to or even read. There are plenty of achievement badges to collect!

Looking forward to getting to know our members and tailoring the Watson Studio group to your needs. Thanks for dropping an introduction and any feedback here -- again, welcome!

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Christina Howell
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