Cognitive business took a bold leap forward in New York City the week of 26 September 2016. At two events on Manhattan's west side, IBM led customers, partners and industry at large in an exploration of how to put machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and big data analytics to work. At the extremely well-attended IBM DataFirst Launch Event at Hudson Mercantile, the chief news was the announcement of Project DataWorks. This new, cloud-based offering provides a self-service environment for teams of data scientists, data engineers and other professionals to collaboratively develop, iterate and deploy sophisticated AI, cognitive computing, machine learning and other advanced analytics. Check out what Dinesh Nirmal, vice president, IBM Analytics, had to say about DataWorks in action during the Strata Hadoop World 2016 conference.

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