Watson in a Beta Phase
December 18, 2014
IBM has put Watson to work in different fields, including: intelligence, cooking, and medicine. The goal is to apply Watson’s advanced analytic software to improve the quality and workflow in these fields as well as discover new insights. Watson Analytics will launch its first public beta test this month, three months after its private beta tests, says ZDNet in “IBM’s Watson Analytics Enters Public Beta.”
Watson Analytics will be freemium software available for mobile and Web devices to run predictive analytics and use the information for visual storytelling.
How does it work?
“Users of Watson Analytics feed in their own raw data, say, in the form of a spreadsheet, which the service then crunches with its own statistical analysis to highlight associations between different variables. It saves execs from needing to know how to write their own scripts or understand statistics in order to derive meaning from their data.”
Watson Analytics is still being changed to meet users’ needs, such as allowing them to create dashboards and infographics and being compatible with other programs: Oracle, SalesForce, Google Docs, and more.
IBM is still programming all the Watson Analytics features, but more details will be revealed as the public tests it.
Is this another PR scheme for Watson and IBM? How much have they spent on public relations? How much will Watson Analytics generate for IBM?
Whitney Grace, December 18, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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