Overview

IBM Watson Studio helps you get to insights faster with self-service, drag-and-drop data analytics right from your desktop. Eliminate repetitive tasks with automated data preparation. Uncover insights from unstructured data with text analytics. Build predictive models with or without coding, leveraging a best-of-breed combination of self-service, no-code, visual modeling tools and open source capabilities. Access a wide variety of data sources flat files, spreadsheets and major relational databases. Visualize your data with dozens of chart types and easily export your findings into presentations.

Features

Data preparation
Eliminate time-consuming, repetitive tasks and harness the power of IBM Data Refinery to explore, prepare and refine data. An intuitive spreadsheet-like interface makes it easier to sample even the largest data sets and identify missing fields, outliers, unusual distributions and other data quality issues. Then you can define transformations to remediate any problems before the modeling process begins.

Support for many data sources
Get a complete view of your business by analyzing data no matter where it lives—in flat files, spreadsheets or major relational databases. Access it all with IBM Watson Studio Desktop.

Data visualization
Build sophisticated visualizations of your data analytics results and communicate the insights you’ve discovered by easily exporting them. Business users can explore their data sets with live charting and a large variety of charts and graphs.

Machine learning methods and algorithms
Take advantage of decision trees, neural networks and regression models available from IBM SPSS Modeler as part of Watson Studio Desktop. Include ARMA, ARIMA and exponential smoothing. Transfer functions with predictors and outlier detection. Benefit from ensemble and hierarchical models. Support vector machine and temporal causal modeling. Employ time series and spatial AR for spatiotemporal prediction. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) and reinforcement also enable deep learning.

Text analytics
Items such as reports, web pages, emails and call center notes contain a wealth of insights. Without the technology to analyze it, you’re leaving those insights undiscovered. Leverage built-in, industry-leading dictionaries and a simple UI to explore this data with text analytics.

Model development
Use the SPSS Modeler canvas embedded in Watson Studio Desktop to build models using a simple drag-and-drop design process. The intuitive graphical interface helps to visualize each step in the data mining process as part of a stream, so analysts and business users without coding experience can add expertise and business knowledge to the process.

Notebooks
Explore data sets, run experiments, describe your methods and share the results with your team. Notebooks provide an interactive environment where data, code and visualization exist side by side, so teams can repeat and verify each others’ methods and confirm results easily.

Project management
Create and manage projects to organize your data, models and documentation for both offline use and online collaboration. Combine your own data sets with assets from your organizations data catalog, while maintaining full compliance with security and governance policies.

Benefits

Stop wasting time on repetitive tasks
Automate data profiling and data preparation with Data Refinery in Watson Studio Desktop.

Uncover new insights
Analyze unstructured data such as call logs, emails and web pages with text analytics.

Get up and running in minutes
A unified user experience across desktop, cloud and local computing environments enables rapid adoption without extra training.