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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

Now that we have done the work, although Watson Analytics does a lot of the work for us, we are in a good place in that we are ready to create a prediction.

Remember that our goal was to determine what kind of personal recommendation could be made to promote more purchases by our focus group of Caucasian retirees who were first-time buyers.

As a short review, to create our Watson Analytics prediction, you can do the following :

  1. Go to the Watson Analytics Welcome page and then click on Predict
  2. Of course, we need data, so we must then select our dataset from the list in the Create new prediction box
  3. Enter a name for our new prediction in the Name your workbook field:

Targets

It is very important to...