Zero to Cognitive
An IBM Redbooks video course
by Bob Dill
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.
Target audience
- Application developers interested to learn how to build cognitive applications.
Materials students need for the course
- Git repository at github.com/rddill-IBM/ZeroToCognitive
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 Updated
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 Updated
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 Updated
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.
Published 27 September 2017