DSx for Consulting Assessment
February 22, 2018

DSx for Consulting Assessment

Mauricio Quiroga-Pascal Ortega | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Data Science Experience (DSx)

As a senior consultant, I'm always looking to discover value in our's client data. This is crucial in our commercial model. Moreover, we always calculate the NPV of all the opportunities that we detect.I have been using DSx for anomalies detection in time series, understanding bias and variances and developing machine learning algorithms to estimate key dependent variables propensities.

Mainly, we have been helping retailers and their suppliers on stock optimization, price elasticity, and in-store stock shortage estimations.

Pros

  • Very easy to use. Very intuitive.
  • It's very easy to export the data architecture of a project and use it and modify it in a new project
  • Having a very powerful cloud processing capability, allow to perform complex data analytics in any place with a good Internet connection

Cons

  • At the beginning it's a little complex to understand some of the interface distribution
  • Since the features are changing continuously, some of the tutorials don't fit the current version.
  • Sometimes, the cloud platform run very slowly.
  • Positive: Very low deployment cost
  • Positive: ASP model, at the beginning it's cheaper than other solutions as on-premise. Hadoop is complex for almost everybody and expensive
  • Negative: When a new solution is launched, weren't sure about the final cost for the client
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Well suited:
  • Develop a complex solution for a client with very big data
  • Organize working between several data scientists in separate locations
Less Appropriate:
  • When there's a need to make a fast opportunity assessment and the client's data isn't pre-processed
  • When you're working with other data scientisst that are "addicted" to Phyton and R

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