IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone

antimora wrote: post #2

I signed up and extracted tutorial video URLs that can give you an idea how it looks (video files names have titles): http://101d1.http.tor01.cdn.softlayer.net/Welcome-Assets/mar... http://101d1.http.tor01.cdn.softlayer.net/Welcome-Assets/ope... http://101d1.http.tor01.cdn.softlayer.net/Welcome-Assets/sam... http://101d1.http.tor01.cdn.softlayer.net/Welcome-Assets/mar... http://101d1.http.tor01.cdn.softlayer.net/Welc…

Great job :)

Re: IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone

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Post by jsprogrammer » Sat, Dec 06, 2014, 8:59 AM UTC

Open to everyone who will sign up for a trial account with IBM?

Or did they post the code somewhere?

Re: IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone

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Post by audioburn » Sat, Dec 06, 2014, 9:56 AM UTC

This is amazing. I feel like I'm dreaming. I'm wondering what the input spreadsheets look like, though

Re: IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone

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Post by nl » Sat, Dec 06, 2014, 10:07 AM UTC

Does this actually have anything to do with the technologies used in Watson-the-Jeopardy-winning-system?

I've read much of the published papers on Watson and I don't really understand how this relates?

Is it that the "Watson" brand encompasses all IBM's semi-intelligent systems work?

Re: IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone

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Post by htns » Sat, Dec 06, 2014, 11:47 AM UTC

nl wrote: post #6

Does this actually have anything to do with the technologies used in Watson-the-Jeopardy-winning-system? I've read much of the published papers on Watson and I don't really understand how this relates? Is it that the "Watson" brand encompasses all IBM's semi-intelligent systems work?

Yeah, this appears to be just online statistics. The only "AI" thing about it is that it can match natural language queries to your spreadsheet column names.

Re: IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone

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Post by spydum » Sat, Dec 06, 2014, 12:30 PM UTC

So, just another BI/decision support system, which uses this spiral visualization? It is sorta neat it tries to find some patterns for you, but I imagine once your data exceeds simple spreadsheets it becomes far less cool.

Re: IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone

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Post by blaze33 » Sat, Dec 06, 2014, 2:05 PM UTC

jsprogrammer wrote: post #4

Open to everyone who will sign up for a trial account with IBM? Or did they post the code somewhere?

"Watson Analytics is Now Open For Business", doesn't say open source. Also the submitted title doesn't match the linked page title.

Re: IBM’s Watson Analytics platform is now open to everyone

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Post by cyorir » Sat, Dec 06, 2014, 3:13 PM UTC

nl wrote: post #6

Does this actually have anything to do with the technologies used in Watson-the-Jeopardy-winning-system? I've read much of the published papers on Watson and I don't really understand how this relates? Is it that the "Watson" brand encompasses all IBM's semi-intelligent systems work?

Watson refers to the technologies used in the Jeopardy system, yes. Specifically, it refers to the Watson API, which consists of all the NLP and AI algorithms used in the Jeopardy system repackaged (with additions) and hidden under a simpler, query-based system. The Watson API is becoming the basis for most of IBM's Bluemix services which are described by IBM as "cognitive" (as you phrase it, "semi-intelligent systems" - referring mainly to NLP and related applications).

IBM is working on a number of applications to use the Watson API, as well as inviting other developers to use the API. Watson Analytics is just one of these applications, but it doesn't run on Watson alone. It is probably better to think of these applications as fitting within the overall framework of IBM's bluemix services, which includes Watson but also other technologies less geared towards NLP.

https://console.ng.bluemix.net/