Get Started with Data Science Experience

Description: Follow this lab and perform hands on exercises with IBM Data Science Expereince (DSX). Data Science Experience allows you to easily develop and share a model that scales using Apache Spark, Python or RStudio.

After signing up for a DSX you can choose to test out SPSS Modeler flows or a Jupyter notebook.

Instructions:

Step 1. Create a DSX account

1. Go to http://datascience.ibm.com/

2. Click the signup button on the top right

3. Enter your email and press continue. Note: If you have a Bluemix account you can click continue with Bluemix credentials, otherwise click create your Bluemix account and enter your email.

4. You should get an email from "ibmacct" with your IBMid Confirmation code

5. Then, on the next page fill in the corresponding fields and click CREATE ACCOUNT

6. In the new page, write your email and click CONTINUE

7. Write your recently generated password and click on SIGN IN

8. It will take a minute to create your account. When ready, click on Get Started.

You are now in the Data Science Experience landing page. Your environment is automatically set up with one Apache Spark instance and 5 GB of object storage. From here you can explore any of the tutorials, videos, sample notebooks, totorials or articles in the community.

Step 2. Choose your own adventure

1. If you like coding and want to try a notebook in our environment go here to get started!

2. Want to see the updated SPSS Modeler to build models without code? Get started with the tutorial here!