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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

Once again, once we have obtained the data in the form of a file in this case, our file of bank transactions and have performed our initial data review, we will need to load the file into Watson Analytics, using the usual method from the Welcome page (+Add, then Upload data).

Once the data has been loaded, we can proceed to the next step in the project, which is usually to begin using Watson Analytics Explore function.

As we have explained in previous chapters, you can use Explore to ask questions about data (and build interactive visualizations) quite easily. You can also create, filter, and explore multiple visualizations of the data to try to discover patterns and relationships in the data.

To load our data file, we start at the Welcome page, and click +Add, and then Explore as shown in the following screenshot:

Next, we select our BankTransactions file...