Watson Weakly: Analysis of Harry Potter
April 4, 2016
I noted this write up: “IBM’s Watson Analyzed All the ‘Harry Potter’ Books and Movies — and the Results are Fascinating.” An outfit called Tech Insider appears to have “asked” Watson “what it thought of the Harry Potter original book series and movies.”
IBM, that revenue engine which delights its stakeholders, offered up Vinith Misra, “a research staff member for IBM Watson.”
It appears that Watson did what any second year English major does in between pizza bites and hanging out. Watson “read” the Potter books and “watched” the films. I think Watson was fed movie scripts, but that’s a niggling point. Of course, Watson can handle rich media. Watson is a very capable system for generating some text analytics.
What did Watson discover? I won’t review the findings in one big list of stunners. Let me highlight one finding, which will lure you into the silly listicle. Here you go:
Professor McGonagall ranks the highest of all the characters for intellect.
Useful? Insightful?
IBM’s marketing continues to amaze me. By the way, if I were teaching those college sophomores, I would expect more from an analysis written in a dorm in 15 minutes after a long weekend of partying.
Stephen E Arnold, April 4, 2016
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