Item: IBM Watson Studio on Cloud Pak for Data
Rating: 9
Author: Jose Valdivia Leon

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Data Science Experience (DSx)

We were using DSx for cleansing and modeling data for the insurance industry. DAD has been used for our small data science team only.

To have Jupyter notebooks and RStudio in the same environment is great!
The free Spark engine is perfect and enough to support the development activities.
The integration with GitHub facilitated our collaborative work.

To set up a new Spark cluster and use it with DSx is a bit hard. It would be great to have the option to create a new big cluster without leaving DSx.
I've faced several problems with DSx desktop.

Definitely DSx has helped us to develop our data science skills and achieve our objectives.
As we were using the free tier, it's difficult to assess our ROI.

Amazon EMR - easy to set up, but hard to use for development
Databricks - good option as well
Azure HD insight - the same as AWS.

IBM Data Science Experience Is a very flexible and handy environment; ideal to develop and debug your data science code.

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