Reviewing the landscape
Watson technology is exciting. IBM has made is easy for developers to access artificial intelligence tools to add to their designs through Bluemix, a platform-as-a-service offering from IBM. What does this mean? It means quite simply that anyone can use watson and develop Watson solutions.
Some of my favorites are there...Q&A, Personality Insights, and speech recognition. Others, though, seem to be missing. Where is Watson Analytics? The existing Watson APIs on Bluemix do a great job handling unstructured (paragraphs of text) but missing is the power to analyze structured data (database type).
Watson technology is exciting. IBM has made is easy for developers to access artificial intelligence tools to add to their designs through Bluemix, a platform-as-a-service offering from IBM. What does this mean? It means quite simply that anyone can use watson and develop Watson solutions.
Some of my favorites are there...Q&A, Personality Insights, and speech recognition. Others, though, seem to be missing. Where is Watson Analytics? The existing Watson APIs on Bluemix do a great job handling unstructured (paragraphs of text) but missing is the power to analyze structured data (database type).
To analyze structured data, there is a platform of Watson Analytics that allows anyone to find correlations in their data for free. The issue I have at this time is that they are both under the Watson banner, but don't work together in the way that all other Watson products work together. Watson Analytics is a suite of analytics tools that include natural language processing options, but aren't available as an API to integrate the 2 types of data in one query.
Hopefully we will see an addition to the Watson API options soon.
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