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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)

Getting started

In this section, we have made a hypothetical, yet hopefully realistic, setting where the reader can identify a goal, determine what data is available for use, and then review, understand, and load that data into Watson Analytics. We will be looking at a scenario where you have been given access to patient medical records, as well as the legends from various dialog sessions with those patients.

Although dialoguing isn't always saved in a formatted (or at least consistently formatted) way, it is easiest to consume and use dialoguing with Watson Analytics if some time is taken to apply at least some degree of formatting to the data. The amount of effort required to format or apply formatting to dialog information depends (mostly) on the method that was used to collect it.

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