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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)

Reviewing the results

Once the data has been loaded, we can get to know it a bit. One way of doing this is to create a prediction on our file, but starting with a new analysis, using the following steps:

  1. Click on Predict and select our file. On the Create a new analysis page, you can click on the link that says Edit this workbook's field properties, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Once you click on the link, you will see the Field Properties page, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. On this page, every column found in the file is listed down the left-hand side of the page. Clicking on the column selects it and allows you to see the name of the column, the label being used for the column, its role, and its measurement level.
The Label function maps a value in the data to a phrase that is a better description of the value. The Role function determines how a...