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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)

Developing the project

To continue with project development, we can again utilize the Watson Analytics Explore feature. If you don't quite remember how to do this, from the Welcome page you can click on Explore and then select the dataset to be explored, which in our case is the data we just finished filtering (using Refine) in the previous section.

Watson Analytics will present you with various starting points:

IBM Watson Analytics uses questions rather than SQL commands to generate the list of starting points that you can use to create visualizations that meet your needs.

Not surprisingly, we are interested most in the Dollar Amount Sold, and particularly the relationship between Dollar Amount and Dollar Amount Sold.

These data points in our file constitute the average amount (in dollars) that a user has in their online shopping cart, compared to the average amount they...