Chapter 4. Creating a display to share with others

You can easily communicate the analysis and insights that you discover in IBM Watson Analytics by combining visualizations with text, images, and shapes.

Create a dashboard, infographic, or Expert Storybook where you can monitor and share these insights. In this tutorial, let's create a dashboard.

 

About this task

Here's a short video that gives you a look at some of the details about getting started with Display in Watson Analytics.

 

https://youtu.be/WKRtZF3Bn-Y

 

Procedure

1. On the landing page, tap Display and then tap Newdisplay.

2. Complete the followingactions:

a. Name the display “Tutorial - dashboard”.

b. Ensure that the Dashboard display type is selected.

c. Tap Create.

3. You see predefined layouts that contain grid lines for easy arrangement and alignment of visualizations and other elements in a display. Let's select the layout that has 4 panes for our dashboard.

4. Let's add the discoveries that you created in Discover. Open the Personal

folder to see your discovery set.

5. Expand “Tutorial -discoveries”.

6. Drag “Course cost” to the top left pane and drop it on the square that appears in thepane.

 

You can change the data that's shown in the discovery if you need to. Simply

tap the discovery and then tap . For example, you can use the interactive title,changethecolumnsinthedataslots,orchangethevisualizationtype.

7. Add “External hires” to the bottom left pane.

8. Add “Expense total” to the top right pane.

9. Add “Drivers” to the bottom right pane.

10. Let's add a filter to the current tab of the display to see the impact of the duration of courses on the visualizations. Tap Filters.

 

11.
Tap      next to Course days to add it to the This tab filterarea.Close the Filters panel to have more room on the canvas.

12. To apply the filter, tap Course days in the This tab filter area. Move the slider toshowcourseswithashorterduration,ortypeanewendpoint.Wepicked

14.5 as the end point but feel free to select a different one.

As you move the slider, the visualizations change to reflect the filter.

13. To close the filter box, tap Course days again.

Info about what is filtered is shown in the This tab filter area and under the title for each visualization.

14. Save the dashboard to your Personal folder.

15. To find out how to enhance the dashboard, visit the Docs in the Help menu. Here are someideas:

vAdd tabs to the display for additional discoveries.

vUse text widgets to annotate the dashboard with descriptions or to add a title.

vProvide more info by adding media and links to web pages. v Format the dashboard, such as changing the colors or theme. vAdd images and shapes to add visual appeal.

16. Tap to share this dashboard. If you are using the Professional edition of Watson Analytics, you can also move it to a shared folder where other users in the account can use it.

17. Return to the landing page.

 

 

Chapter 5. Social media

You can gain insight into social media discussions that are related to your key focus for analysis.

 

You can mine social media in different ways in IBM Watson Analytics:

vYou can add a snapshot of Tweets and their metadata as a data asset to explore in Watson Analytics if you are subscribed to the Professional edition or the Plus edition.

vYou can purchase IBM Watson Analytics for Social Media and use it to analyze social media content in visualizations that we create for you.

Adding and exploring Tweets

As you continue to develop your company's pilot program, you are asked to analyze external social media data and identify positive ways to deliver this training. You decide to use hashtags about e-learning and mobile learning.

 

About this task

You can complete this task only if you are subscribed to the Professional edition or the Plus edition of Watson Analytics.

 

Procedure

1. On the landing page, tap Data and then tap New data.

2. On the Import tab, tap Twitter.

3. Complete the followingactions:

a. Enter these hashtags and separate them by a space: #elearning#mlearning

b. To get a reasonable and current sample size and quick return on the query, enter a date range that starts a week before today. Or use the date ranges that are shown in the screen capture.

c. In the Data asset name box, highlight the default name and replace it with “Tutorial -Twitter”.

 

4. Tap Import.

5. Tap the data asset that was created.

IBM Watson Analytics analyzes sentiment and generates some starting points for you.

6. Enter the question “compare Tweets by matching hashtag and sentiment?” Then, pressEnter.

7. Tap the starting point that is called “How does the number of Tweet compare by Matching Hashtagsand Sentiment?”

You see that there is a lot more discussion around e-learning.

8. Return to the landing page.

 

Results

You created a data asset of hashtags that you then explored in Watson Analytics.