IBM Watson Projects: Eight exciting projects that put artificial intelligence into practice for optimal business performance

IBM Watson Projects: Eight exciting projects that put artificial intelligence into practice for optimal business performance

by James Miller
IBM Watson Projects: Eight exciting projects that put artificial intelligence into practice for optimal business performance

IBM Watson Projects: Eight exciting projects that put artificial intelligence into practice for optimal business performance

by James Miller

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Overview

Incorporate intelligence to your data-driven business insights and high accuracy business solutions




Key Features



  • Explore IBM Watson capabilities such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning


  • Build projects to adopt IBM Watson across retail, banking, and healthcare


  • Learn forecasting, anomaly detection, and pattern recognition with ML techniques





Book Description



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.





What you will learn



  • Build a smart dialog system with cognitive assistance solutions


  • Design a text categorization model and perform sentiment analysis on social media datasets


  • Develop a pattern recognition application and identify data irregularities smartly


  • Analyze trip logs from a driving services company to determine profit


  • Provide insights into an organization's supply chain data and processes


  • Create personalized recommendations for retail chains and outlets


  • Test forecasting effectiveness for better sales prediction strategies



Who this book is for



This book is for data scientists, AI engineers, NLP engineers, machine learning engineers, and data analysts who wish to build next-generation analytics applications. Basic familiarity with cognitive computing and sound knowledge of any programming language is all you need to understand the projects covered in this book.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789346695
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication date: 09/29/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 340
File size: 14 MB
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About the Author

James Miller is an innovator and accomplished Sr. Project Lead and Solution Architect with 37 years experience. of extensive design and development across multiple platforms and technologies. Roles include leveraging his consulting experience to provide hands-on leadership in all phases of advanced analytics and related technology projects, providing recommendations for process improvement, report accuracy, adoption of disruptive technologies, enablement, and insight identification. Author: Statistics for Data Science, Mastering Predictive Analytics w/R, Big Data Visualization, Learning Watson Analytics, Implementing Splunk, Mastering Splunk, 5 Guiding Principles of a Successful Center of Excellence, and TM1 Developer's Certification Guide.
James Miller is an innovator and accomplished Sr. Project Lead & Solution Architect with 37 yrs. of extensive design and development experience across multiple platforms and technologies. Roles include leveraging his consulting experience to provide hands-on leadership in all phases of advanced analytics and related technology projects, providing recommendations for process improvement, report accuracy, adoption of disruptive technologies, enablement and insight identification. Authored: Statistics for Data Science, Mastering Predictive Analytics w/R, Big Data Visualization, Learning Watson Analytics, Implementing Splunk, Mastering Splunk, 5 Guiding Principles of a Successful Center of Excellence & TM1 Developer's Certification Guide.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
  1. The Essentials of IBM Watson
  2. A Basic Watson Project
  3. An Automated Supply Chain Scenario
  4. Healthcare Dialoguing
  5. Social Media Sentiment Analysis
  6. Pattern Recognition and Classification
  7. Retail and Personalized Recommendations
  8. Integration for Sales Forecasting
  9. Anomaly Detection in Banking Using AI
  10. What's Next
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