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@marcushearne @BigDataGal @teddy777 @milesaustin Q10: What kind of advanced skills does an organization need to make use of Watson Analytics?

Lillian Pierson, PE
All a user needs is a basic skill level in using something like Excel speadsheets... nothing more.

Miles Austin
A10: "The goal for IBM is to enable and encourage the use of sophisticated analytics while lowering the technical barriers," http://www.ecommerce...

IBM's Watson May Change the Face of Business Analytics
IBM on Tuesday announced Watson Analytics, a natural language-based cognitive service designed to provide businesses with instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytics tools. It runs on desktop PCs and mobile devices. Watson Analytics au...
IBM on Tuesday announced Watson Analytics, a natural language-based cognitive service designed to provide businesses with instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytics tools. It runs on desktop PCs and mobile devices. Watson Analytics au...

Miles Austin
A10: By using visual storytelling and predictive analysis, the power of this service is in its ease to learn what your data has to offer.
Theodore Angelus
#WatsonAnalytics would ease the amount of technical skills and data grooming required, making predictive analytics easier to acquire and use.

Miles Austin
A10: Designed as a self-service tool, the primary skill you need is to know what you are trying to understand. Insight for the untrained might be the most impactful.

Aylee Nielsen
Do we know approximately when the Beta will be made available to those who signed up?
Theodore Angelus
#WatsonAnalytics will make data analytics and business intelligence (based on big data) more accessible to anyone in the enterprise who needs it. It can help “bottlenecking” in a big way!

Marcus Hearne
Bottom line, bring domain knowledge, be that marketing, sales, HR or even parenting (I'm going to use it against my kids grades). Watson Analytics will do the data science.

John Furrier
the culture question around open data - meaning getting access and making available data sources

Ally Klopsch
A10: None. The beauty of #WatsonAnalytics is that it automates the steps of data access and refinement, predictive analysis, and visual storytelling.

Nada MacKinney
THE key ques for #midmarket companies with fewer tech resources & lower tolerance for complexity #ibminsight

Jeff Frick
@BigDataGal > How do you define "basic excel" skills? pretty high variability there.

Callie Summers
WA is seriously transformative in enabling small and mid-sized businesses to take advantage of the data they possess and draw actionable insight!

Jayanta Banerjee
I believe there's no advance skill needed at all. It's analytics for everyone and you don't need to be a data scientist for using #WatsonAnalytics
Theodore Angelus
@marcushearne I agree the applications are unlimited... Helping companies (and parents) make better decisions.

Callie Summers
@JeffFrick probably "college level" - at least functions, filters, and macros would be my guess.

Ally Klopsch
@JeffFrick Well, I hesitate to go that far...but you said it. Not me!

Lillian Pierson, PE
@JeffFrick lol very true... they should know how to use pivot tables in Excel. That's pretty basic, right?

Jeff Frick
@CallieJ_Summers > Used to be amazed watching my financial analysts friends work a spread sheet, Hands never touched the mouse, and you couldn't hardly keep up with watching the cursor move.
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Callie Summers
@JeffFrick haha wow! User friendly is relative, but the level of intuition is surely present and the learning curve, forgiving as WA gets to know each business/person/set of data!