Learning IBM Watson Analytics: Make the most advanced predictive analytical processes easy using Watson Analytics with this easy-to-follow practical guide - Softcover

Miller, James D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785880772 ISBN 13: 9781785880773

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Make the most advanced predictive analytical processes easy using Watson analytics with this easy-to-follow, practical guide

About This Book

• This is the first and the only book on IBM Watson Analytics, and it shows you how to leverage Watson in an enterprise environment through rich use cases
• Incorporate Watson Analytics into your business strategy and confidently add this cutting edge expertise to your resume
• This book is written by James D Miller, IBM-certified expert and accomplished Director and Sr. Project Leader

Who This Book Is For

If you want to perform data discovery and analysis and make sense of data you have, this book for you. Data scientists can also use this book to explore a new way to perform data analysis tasks on cloud with ease. This book does not require a programming background.

What You Will Learn

• Study the language of Watson while you discover how easy it is to access and configure
• Review what a Watson use case is, why it's important, and how to identify one
• Design Watson Analytical solutions based upon your use cases
• Understand the basic concepts behind the content analysis cycle and where Watson fits in
• Explore all the features of Watson, such as Explore, Predict, and Assemble
• Customize and extend your Watson solutions
• Use Watson at the Enterprise level
• Integrate Watson with other toolsets

In Detail

Today, only a small portion of businesses actually use a real analytical tool as part of routine decision making. IBM Watson Analytics is changing that-making the most advanced and predictive analytical techniques understandable and usable for any industry.

This book will be the vital tour guide for your trip, starting with what IBM Watson Analytics is. We'llstart off with introduction to Watson Analytics and then quickly move on to various use cases under which one can use the different analytics functionalities offered by Watson. During the course of the book, you will learn how to design solutions, and customize and extend Watson analytics. We will conclude by taking Watson Analytics to enterprise and integrating it with other solutions (other IBM solutions and analytics). Now is the time for you to learn IBM Watson to compete in the world.

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About the Author

Anthony D'Atri's career in system administration has spanned laptops to vector supercomputers. He has brought his passion for fleet management and the underlying server components to bear on a holistic yet, detailed approach to deployment and operations. Experience with architecture, operation, and troubleshooting of NetApp, ZFS, SVM, and other storage systems dovetailed neatly into Ceph. Three years with Ceph as a petabyte-scale object and block backend to multiple OpenStack clouds at Cisco, additionally built on Anthony's depth. Now helping deliver awesome storage to DigitalOcean's droplet customers, Anthony aims to help the growing community build success with Ceph.. Anthony would like to thank everyone whose technical and professional support have contributed to his success with Ceph, including Cisco, Digital Ocean, Michael Kidd, Tupper Cole, James Donohoe, Louis Watta, Jade Lester, Narendra Trivedi, Weiguo Sun, Richard ""Fuzzy"" Miller, Damon Hsu-Hung, Satish Sangapu, Shweta Saraf, Swati Gaikwad, Yi Chen, Ryan Roemmich, Sebastian Sobolewski, Stan Ayzenberg, Sébastien Han, Adam Wolfe Gordon, Vaibhav Bhembre, William Lehman, and Dan van der Ster. Paramount thanks to his wife Suzanne for her support, patience, and support of his long hours.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785880772
• ISBN 13: 9781785880773
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244