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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)

Creating the prediction

Workflows are used to define the steps required to accomplish a variety of goals. The generally accepted workflow to be used when you want to create a prediction with Watson Analytics involves adding and refining data, creating the prediction, and reviewing the generated results.

So far, we have already peeked at our data, gained something of an understanding of what it contains, loaded the data, and even did some preliminary explorations, so now we can advance to the next step: predicting.

The prediction workflow

The prediction workflow is as follows:

  1. Add a data source.
  2. Analyze the data source by creating a prediction.
  1. Select up to five target fields that you want to predict. A target is a variable...