IBM has opened access to Watson Analytics for all

Service Watson Analytics becomes open to almost everyone, while in beta. Previously, the intention to open access to Watson Analytics, IBM has already announced, and now the promise is fulfilled. Watson Analytics is part of a project to create a company based on IBM Watson. The total project cost is more than a billion US dollars.

To test the capabilities of the service in beta mode, it was necessary to submit an application, since September there have been more than 22,000 such applications. Immediately after the launch of open access, the Watson Analytics Community group appeared, whose members are engaged in discussing the capabilities of the service, as well as popularizing the capabilities of IBM Watson.
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What can the service offer to its users?

Work with Big Data

IBM Watson is a really very powerful system that handles huge amounts of information by processing data in a limited time. Having entered the primary data into the system, the user receives an array of ordered information with identified links between the individual elements.



Business assistance

Using the power of the system, the company can quickly process the project's input data, obtaining a result, explaining how third-party factors influence the change in the financial flows or production capacity of the client.
Thus, a wine producer can get information about which country is the best selling product and how current weather conditions can affect the yield and quality of the crop.

Visualization

The most complex data and calculations are shown in a clear form for the user. Visualization, graphs, charts - always helps to understand the current situation. Watson Analytics quickly performs graphical data processing of any complexity.

Link Detection

Watson Analytics automatically performs the most complicated calculations, showing the user the most important factors for him and his business, patterns and connections between individual elements.



Social component

Twitter and IBM announced a collaboration two months ago. Twitter has provided IBM access to its databases. As you know, Twitter user messages can serve as a source of primary information for identifying various trends and connections (for example, using Twitter you can quickly “detect” the onset of a flu epidemic in a particular region).

Such cooperation can help IBM customers to identify the necessary patterns and trends that are typical for the society of a particular region: a settlement, a country, or a mainland. In Twitter, you can find a lot of information about user preferences, their relationship to different brands and their products, as well as other information.

The processing and structuring of such data will be handled by IBM Watson Analytics.

More information about the service, as well as a request for access to Watson Analythics can be found here .