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IBM Watson Projects

By : James D. Miller
Book Image

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)

Deeper dive – conversation clusters

Watson Analytics features conversation cluster visualizations that can be used to comprehend important terms that appear in social media posts about the topics you added as part of your project. This helps you to find trends and will point out facets and insights that you may not have been thinking of back when you were defining your project topics and themes. Take a look at the following screenshot:

Defining your project topics and themes

Each distinct conversation cluster will show terms that appear together in a noteworthy amount of social media content. If a term is found often, it will be shown using a heavier font in the conversation cluster. In our project, we see the terms empty, logistics, and co.colour uk.

If you click on the empty term, Watson Analytics for Social Media shows the content and posts that contain the term in...