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Search results: Watson Studio

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Allow to JOIN even when data types are different.

We can't choose columns as join key when they have different data types. For example we have two csv files as below. FirstName.csv ID, FirstName 1, taro 2, hanako LastName.csv ID, LastName 1, yamada 2, sato When we create DR flow with FirstName.cs...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Add 'Python' operation to Data Refinery Flow

As a data engineer with programming background, I'd like to create a flow that's using both the pre-built operations and my own python code operations.
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

A configuration place fore storing secrets wich you can use in you python/R scripts and notebooks

currently watson studio locals has no place fore storing secrets other than a database connection. In real life we see that users that need data from a FTP server or a website for wich you need to login that they store there credentials in a noteb...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Automation of repetitive tasks-pandas/numpy and other librarary imprt

For many data science you need always the same libaries in python. Now my idea is that IBM create in the general setting a cross list with most use librarby and when you click on that cross the libary is automatically written in the first cell of ...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Self-Healing for Hadoop Add-on Services

we observed that Hadoop Addon for Cloudera was unstable and it was crashing time to time. This tool is not highly available and can’t recover from crash. Each time this service crashed, there is a need for manual intervention by Hadoop administrat...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Delivered

Auto-Recovery of Hadoop Integration on Reboot

auto-restart capability for the services in the Hadoop addon( the Hadoop /Spark connectivity from Watson studio will be broken once this service stops. According to our experience this connector crashes often and it can’t recover itself without ma...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Delivered

Python analytics users need an IDE

Jupyter notebooks are nice for data exploration and presentations. Proper data science work for production needs to be done in an IDE.PyCharm or something similar would be perfect.
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Data Asset Status

Running a flow will populate a data asset and may make one think that it is available. We should be able to quickly view in the UI if that data asset is available.
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

AutoAI method to compare training vs testing data for similarity and appropriateness

Hi- I'm not sure if there is a similarity measure for training vs. testing data, if not, it should be included, I think. Thanks!
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Unable to create project in lite

Unable to create project in Watson studio for Data science as I am unable to add spark services. Its says it has been depreciated. Kindly let me know what to do. I had to learn how pandas work.
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Is a defect