IBM Watson Discovery Review
What do you like best?
IBM Watson Discovery is an incredibly useful and valuable service which can be used to ingest and analyze both structured and unstructured data, as well as identify relations, concepts, and sentiment in the data you provide for analysis.
What do you dislike?
I found very few downsides to using IBM Watson Discovery. One of the only times I ran into any issues was the times when the IBM Cloud service was either running very slowly or it was down completely. However, I was using IBM Watson Discovery as a student and chose the Lite plan which was free to use and therefore was likely not as highly prioritized as the advanced or premium tiers. I believe this could explain the situations in which attempting to run a cloud application was slower than expected, possibly because other tiers had their jobs ran earlier and quicker in the queue.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would strongly recommend that others try out using IBM Watson Discovery because it is a powerful tool and is also very easy to use. The tool offers both a GUI/node interface as well as the option to view the underlying code. Using nodes is seamless and additional adjustments and enrichments can be quickly applied whether those are relations, concepts, or sentiment.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
I am using IBM Watson Discovery to better understand Natural Language Processing concepts as well as what the current state of AI is capable of and how IBM Watson Discovery can be seamlessly integrated with other applications, products, and services.