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Smarter Data Discovery with Watson Analytics

Daryl Peh

Executive Architect, Cognitive Solutions and Analytics

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The Era of Information Overload is Upon Us

• Information is growing exponentially

• Applying strategy and decision making is difficult

• Skilled analysts overwhelmed with growing workloads

People want to find answers on their own, quickly and efficiently and they

expect to do this using all sorts of data

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Complete and deeper understanding of individuals

Exogenous data

(Behavioral, Socioeconomic

Environmental)

60% of determinants of health

Genomics data

30% of determinants of health

Clinical data

10% of determinants of health

1100 TBgenerated per lifetime

6 TBgenerated per lifetime

0.4 TBgenerated per lifetime

Source: “The Relative Contribution of Multiple Determinants to Health Outcomes”, Laura McGovern et al., Health Affairs, Health Policy Brief, 2014

Harnessing Structured, Unstructured Data sources to surface new and deeper insights

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Data Discovery Tools are Limited

• Starting points are difficult to identify

• Advanced modeling, and analytics skills are needed

• Visualizations don’t always convey the whole story

• Capabilities are limited for wider adoption

…Organizations that transform will outperform.

Analytically driven businesses are 3.7x more likely to identify new innovative

areas of creating more revenue.

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IBM Watson Analytics - Smart Data Discovery

All the benefits of advanced analytics without the complexity

Designed to support the business professional’s analytics process so it’s easy to engage

with and find meanings and patterns in your data in minutes.

Data prep made easy

Guided exploration

Understand outcomes

Share insights

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Watson Analytics is a Different Kind of Analytics Solution

• Minimal learning curve

• Natural language dialogue

• Unbiased analysis

• Social trends and relationships

• Analytics accelerators

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The Evolution of Smart Data Discovery

Generation 1 Generation 2 Generation Now

• Cognos Analytics

• SAP

• Oracle

• Microsoft

• Microstrategy

• Tableau

• QlikTech

• Domo

• MSFT Power BI

• Watson Analytics

• Beyond Core

• ThoughtSpot

Data Discovery Smart Data DiscoveryReporting

Self-service

Visualization

Biased

Cognitive query

Storytelling

Modernized for skillset

Governed and ungoverned

data

Unbiased

Query, Dashboards and

Analysis

OLAP

Enterprise BI

Statement Reporting

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• Engage with data in a human way

• Automatically surface the variables

driving outcomes

• Makes sense of data to tell more

powerful stories

• Refine data to make your analysis

more meaningful and relevant