The hot products for holiday 2015: IBM Watson launches new app that can predict trends — from by Kimberly Whitler
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The holiday season—that favorite time of year for retailers and shoppers alike—is just around the corner. And this year, IBM Watson is launching an app that provides shoppers with the ability to understand the top trends of the season and to predict which products are likely to sell out.
Distilling the sentiment of millions of online conversations across the internet (including social media sites, blogs, forums, ratings, reviews, etc.), the new Watson app (to download the free app, click here) goes beyond providing a static ranking of popular products to provide insight on how consumers feel about the products.
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Addendum om 11/30/15:
- Why IBM spent billions buying technology it already had access to — from finance.yahoo.com by James Kosur and Julie Bort
Excerpt:
Schroeter sees a future where IBM’s analytics capabilities are paired with the Weather Company’s data ingestion technology to create the world’s leading internet of things.