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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)

Starting a pattern recognition and classification project

Again, just like in all our projects, we need to load our data into Watson Analytics, so that we can start working with it.

We know that we can easily add data that is in a comma-separated values (CSV) or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (xls or xlsx) file, and our data is CSV-formatted (so we don't need to worry about any reformatting or pre-processing), and we can just use the Watson interface to load it as we've done in previous chapters (starting form the Watson Analytic Welcome page, click on Add, select Upload data, and so on).

Now, Watson Analytics has our data (we see the panel here) and we are ready to get going:

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets or CSV files can be stored anywhere that your computer or portable device has local or LAN access to. They can also be stored on a cloud storage service such as Dropbox...