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Zero to Cognitive

An IBM Redbooks course

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First available 27 September 2017

 

This video series lets anyone get started easily with IBM Bluemix and the IBM Watson services, developed and presented by IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO Bob Dill. This twelve part video series lets you learn how to build cognitive applications using the IBM Bluemix Cloud.

 
    • Application developers interested to learn how to build cognitive applications.

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    Chapter  01

    The Story

    The story and architecture for what we'll build, quickly and in small pieces, to learn Bluemix and various Watson services.

      
    Chapter  02

    Setting up Bluemix and your laptop

    Get your Bluemix ID, set up your laptop.

      
    Chapter  03

    Building your first Watson application

    Create your first node-js app using the Watson speech to text service.

      
    Chapter  04

    Getting Watson to talk back

    Using Speech to Text and Text to Speech.

      
    Chapter  05

    Understanding classifiers

    Using Watson Natural Language Classifiers.

      
    Chapter  06

    Creating a custom dialog

    Use the material from chapters 3-5 and build a custom dialog.

      
    Chapter  07

    Authentication: sessions, users, Cloudant and HTTPS

    Using HTTPS on your local system and automatically changing to support Bluemix.

      
    Chapter  08

    Understanding Watson Discovery News

    Using Watson Discovery News to find information about specific companies, ensure that only company information is retrieved and include sentiment analysis in the process.

      
    Chapter  09

    Visual Recognition and Images

    Using the Visual Recognition APIs to classify images and find similar images.

      
    Chapter  10

    Watson Conversations

    Using the Watson conversation service to create a self-learning dialog.

      
    Chapter  11

    Watson Discovery

    Using the Watson Discovery service and Document Conversion service.

      
    Chapter  12

    Getting Started on my Client Demo

    Getting Started on my Client Demo.