Watson DevCon 2016 - The Future of Discovery: Deep Insights with Cognitive APIs
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The document discusses IBM's Watson Discovery Service, which leverages cognitive technologies to unlock insights from vast amounts of unstructured data. It emphasizes the importance of data in gaining competitive advantages and introduces capabilities such as natural language understanding and data analytics. The service enables users to explore, discover, and predict outcomes by analyzing data and correlating it with external information.
Watson DevCon 2016 - The Future of Discovery: Deep Insights with Cognitive APIs
- 1. The Future of Discovery Deep Insights via Cognitive APIs Elliot Turner November 9, 2016
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- 3. 11/21/16World of Watson 2016 3 The world is swimming in data.
- 5. 11/21/16World of Watson2016 5 Nearly everything we do generates or consumes data.
- 6. Every web site we visit.
- 7. Every item we purchase.
- 8. Every navigation route we take.
- 9. We’re accumulating more data than ever before.
- 10. 11/21/16World of Watson 2016 10 Yet the vast majority of data is locked away in silos.
- 11. Worse yet, most data is unintelligible to traditional BI systems. It is unstructured.
- 12. Those who can draw insights from their data can gain valuable competitive advantage.
- 13. Cognitive technologies unlock insights in your data.
- 14. Watson understands human language the way people do.
- 15. Watson sifts through massive amounts of data.
- 16. Enabling you to explore and discover.
- 17. We’ve packaged up these capabilities as developer APIs.
- 18. Enabling you to build your own cognitive apps.
- 19. Introducing Watson Discovery Service.
- 20. Watson Discovery enriches your documents with natural language understanding.
- 21. Watson Discovery indexes your data, making it searchable.
- 22. Watson Discovery provides easy-to-use data analytics.
- 23. A new lens for understanding your data assets.
- 24. Enabling you to answer critical business questions.
- 25. Enabling you to identify correlations and causal factors.
- 26. Enabling you to predict future outcomes.
- 27. Explore Discover PredictAutomate Watson Discovery enables you to unlock new insights.
- 28. Understand and identify causal factors via time-series analysis.
- 29. Construct knowledge graphs and leverage integrated semantic search. Integrated named entity and relationship extraction.
- 30. Correlate your internal data with the outside world via pre-enriched news content. Tens of thousands of sources. Hundreds of thousands of articles enriched daily. A finger on the world’s pulse through news analytics.
- 31. We are at the beginning of the Cognitive Era. Watson Discovery Service is available via the Watson Developer Cloud. Try it today!