Presentation given by Elliot Turner at Watson DevCon 2016. Finding actionable insights in the ever-growing volume of public and private data is an increasingly complex challenge. The problem is compounded when much of the available data is unstructured. In this session, you’ll see the current state and a glimpse into the future of Watson’s tools for data insights, and you’ll learn how these services can help you make sense of unstructured data, improve business intelligence, eliminate risk, and take action.

1. The Future of Discovery
Deep Insights via Cognitive APIs
Elliot Turner
November 9, 2016

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The world is
swimming in data.

4. Data is everywhere.

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Nearly everything we do
generates or consumes
data.

6. Every web site we visit.

7. Every item we purchase.

8. Every navigation route
we take.

9. We’re accumulating more
data than ever before.

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Yet the vast majority of
data is locked away in
silos.

11. Worse yet, most data is
unintelligible to traditional
BI systems.
It is unstructured.

12. Those who can draw
insights from their data
can gain valuable
competitive advantage.

13. Cognitive technologies
unlock insights in your
data.

14. Watson understands
human language the way
people do.

15. Watson sifts through
massive amounts of data.

16. Enabling you to explore
and discover.

17. We’ve packaged up
these capabilities as
developer APIs.

18. Enabling you to build
your own cognitive apps.

19. Introducing Watson
Discovery Service.

20. Watson Discovery
enriches your documents
with natural language
understanding.

21. Watson Discovery
indexes your data,
making it searchable.

22. Watson Discovery
provides easy-­to-­use
data analytics.

23. A new lens for
understanding your
data assets.

24. Enabling you to
answer critical
business questions.

25. Enabling you to
identify correlations
and causal factors.

26. Enabling you to
predict future
outcomes.

27. Explore Discover
PredictAutomate
Watson Discovery enables you to
unlock new insights.

28. Understand and identify causal
factors via time-­series analysis.

29. Construct knowledge graphs and
leverage integrated semantic search.
Integrated named entity and relationship extraction.

30. Correlate your internal data with the outside
world via pre-­enriched news content.
Tens of thousands of sources. Hundreds of thousands of articles enriched daily. A finger on
the world’s pulse through news analytics.

31. We are at the beginning of
the Cognitive Era.
Watson Discovery Service
is available via the
Watson Developer Cloud.
Try it today!