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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 pattern recognition and classification project

The IBM Watson Analytics product documentation states that a prediction is a container for a predictive analysis and specifies the dataset that is being analyzed. A prediction can also specify the field properties that override the field properties in the dataset. By defining prediction-specific field properties, one can create custom analyses of the data.

Each Watson Analytics prediction you create can have different targets and inputs. After you create a prediction, you then review it to see the output from the analysis—and hopefully—new visual and text insights.

As a cue, the objective of this chapter's project is to determine what columns in our data affects the column position. In other words, we want to predict what combination of a player's characteristics or capabilities will best determine...