Making your applications smart by combining Cognitive and AI capabilities

IBM Watson has evolved from being a game show winning question & answering computer system to a set of enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) application program interfaces (API) available on IBM Cloud. These Watson API's can ingest, understand & analyze all forms of data, allow for natural forms of interactions with people, learn, reason - all at a scale that allows for business processes and applications to be reimagined.

This course will give you a hands-on introduction to getting a detailed understanding of the Watson AI API's, how to train them and eventually build applications using them. You will go through the fundamentals behind each of the API's, lots of code examples on how to use them on different types of unstructured data, spot the scenarios where you can apply them as well as real-life use case examples. You will learn about how to build conversational apps a.k.a., chat-bots, analyze text at a deeper level, transcribe audio, training a machine to classify & detect objects in pictures, extract entities, emotions, sentiment and relationships from news articles etc.

You will also learn the different types of data basics of AI including machine & deep learning, approach to building AI systems. You will learn about the basics of getting started with IBM Cloud, Watson and setting up an environment to build AI infused apps.

By the end of the course, you will have a complete understanding of the various Watson API's and will have developed the skills to effectively use them in applications and business processes you may be working on.

All the code and supporting files for this course are available at:

Style and Approach
This practical course is packed with step-by-step instructions, working examples, and helpful advice on getting started with IBM Watson. This comprehensive course is divided into clear bite-size chunks so you can learn at your own pace and focus on the areas of most interest to you.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCING THE IBM WATSON PLATFORM
GETTING STARTED WITH CODING FOR IBM WATSON
BUILD CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS USING THE WATSON CONVERSATION SERVICE
RICH TEXT ANALYTICS USING WATSON NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING FOR YOUR APPLICATION
ADDING SPEECH RECOGNITION CAPABILITIES TO YOUR APPS USING WATSON SPEECH TO TEXT
TRAIN IMAGE RECOGNITION MODELS USING WATSON VISUAL RECOGNITION

What You Will Learn
Learn the fundamentals of IBM Cloud and creating service instances
Understand the various IBM Watson AI API's in detail, how to train and when to use them
Learn Watson Assistant to build an IT Support Assistant conversational application
Apply Watson Natural Language Understanding to build an Customer Complaints Analyzer
Train Watson Speech to Text to build a financial earnings call analyzer & enricher application
Train Watson Visual Recognition to classify & detect rooms in a home
Become proficient in using the Watson API's to build applications in Python, Node-RED and Node.js
Best practices when using each of the API's