1. DAVID CALAWA IBM DATA MINING TOOLS

2. PRODUCTS Cognos A suite of products focusing on analyzing and displaying data Watson A cloud based analytics service capable of processing natural language queries SPSS Predictive analytics software

3. COGNOS Cognos is a platform that combines a large number of tools into a unified interface It can be run as a cloud based service or locally on an IBM mainframe (system z) Provides an interface to access reports on smartphones Supports multi-level in memory caching to support processing of large data sets (terabytes) in memory

4. WATSON Watson was originally developed to win at Jeopardy After the success of IBM’s Big Blue against Gary Kasparov in 1997, IBM was looking for a new challenge When first proposed, the idea was deemed unfeasible, most research groups in IBM took a pass on the idea An earlier system took several minutes to respond and only gave the correct answer 35% of the time

5. WATSON ON JEOPARDY During the Jeopardy competition Watson had access to 200 million pages of content including all of Wikipedia This was stored in memory to speed access Jeopardy winnings Day 1: Watson $35,734 Jennings $4,800 Rutter $10,400 Day 2: Watson $77,174 Jennings $24,000 Rutter $21,600 Final:Watson 1 st Jennings 2 nd Rutter 3 rd

6. OTHER USES OF WATSON Watson has been used to suggest treatment options for medical patients Watson has been suggested for legal research Watson has an API that allows for apps to be created that interface with Watson to access its capabilities

7. SOURCES www.wikipedia.com www.ibm.com