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IBM Watson Projects

By : James D. Miller
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IBM Watson Projects

By: James D. Miller

Overview of this book

IBM Watson provides fast, intelligent insight in ways that the human brain simply can't match. Through eight varied projects, this book will help you explore the computing and analytical capabilities of IBM Watson. The book begins by refreshing your knowledge of IBM Watson's basic data preparation capabilities, such as adding and exploring data to prepare it for being applied to models. The projects covered in this book can be developed for different industries, including banking, healthcare, media, and security. These projects will enable you to develop an AI mindset and guide you in developing smart data-driven projects, including automating supply chains, analyzing sentiment in social media datasets, and developing personalized recommendations. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to develop solutions for process automation, and you'll be able to make better data-driven decisions to deliver an excellent customer experience.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Building the Watson project

Now, let's see how to build this project.

Loading your data

In Chapter 2, A Basic Watson Project, (in the Loading Your Data section), we loaded a file formatted as a Microsoft Excel worksheet. In this chapter, we will use those same steps to load our supply chain dataset. Rather than repeat those instructions here, we'll provide a few data-specific FAQs:

  1. In practice, the most common file exchange format is either an Excel file or a comma-separated (CSV) text file, and Watson Analytics is happy with both formats, as long as you understand that Watson wants lists of data, not formatted report files (files containing nested rows or column headings, or total and subtotal rows).
  2. In addition...