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Challenge Summary

Welcome to the "What would you do with Watson" idea generation challenge! 

In this challenge, we are looking for a well-documented ideation of a transformative cognitive application utilizing the Watson Developer Cloud services on Bluemix! 

We are looking for ideas with either altruistic or commercial value. 

  • How Watson services can help in everyday life? 
  • How Watson services can help shape industries  (i.e. healthcare, travel, retail or financial)

Ultimately, we are looking for great ideas to build upon which bring the power of Watson services to life, strengthen Watson from an algorithmic perspective or suggest new data corpi. The smart use of multiple Bluemix services is also of value.

Round 1

See deliverables, we will be giving submitters an opportunity to receive feedback or direction from the client. 

Round 2

Final submission. 


Contest Instructions and Requirements:
 
Eight cognitive services are available in beta in the IBM Bluemix cloud. Your challenge – bring them to life. Combine Watson services, DevOps, and your ingenuity to think up the next great idea. The best and most well-thought out concepts will win! 

Eight services are available with more on the way:
 
1.     User Modeling: Personality profiling to help engage users on their own terms [view live demo here]
 
2.     Concept Expansion: Maps euphemisms or colloquial terms to more commonly understood phrases [view live demo here] 
 
3.     Message Resonance: Communicate with people with a style and words that suits them [view live demo here] 
 
4.     Language Identification: Identifies the language in which text is written [view live demo here]
 
5.     Machine Translation: Globalize on the fly. Translate text from one language to another [view live demo here]
 
6.     Relationship Extraction: Intelligently finds relationships between sentences components (nouns, verbs, subjects, objects, etc.)  [view live demo here]
 
7.     Visualization Rendering: Graphical representations of data analysis for easier understanding  [view live demo here]
 
8.     Question and Answer: Direct responses to users inquiries fueled by primary document sources
 
We want to know:
How would you use the Watson services to make transformative applications or algorithms in the healthcare, travel, retail or financial industries? 
 
Ideas include:
a.    User: Who would this app benefit?
b.    User problem description: What is the problem you’re trying to solve?
c.    Which Watson services will be used? (not limited to existing pre-trained data sets)
d.    Description of application/application flow
e.    Data inputs and outputs
f.     How/where will the application be delivered? Devices?
 
Deliverables:
·         High level overview/statement of the idea: one or two sentences describing your idea.
·         Description of idea: one or two paragraphs including use cases
·         Optional: Illustration of idea using graphic, code sample or use of data science /algorithm/pattern logic
 
Judging criteria:
 
1) Commercial or altruistic value of idea
2) How well does this app leverage a variety of different Watson and/or Bluemix services
3) How feasible are the app’s use case(s)
 
Before you get started:
1. Please review all content in all referenced links
2. Register at Bluemix by signing up for a free trial here: https://apps.admin.ibmcloud.com/manage/trial/bluemix.html
3. Once you have an IBM ID after signing up for Bluemix, link your username to an IBM DevOps Services account by navigating here: https://login.jazz.net/psso/proxy/jazzlogin?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fhub.jazz.net%2F
4. Once you receive your confirmation email, go back to the Bluemix / Watson solution page: https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/#/solutions/solution=watson
5. Select Log In in the upper right corner of the screen 
6. Navigate to the Catalog page to explore all available starters, add-ons and services (including the Watson services.) Click on each service to get a high level description, and then click on View Docs for in depth documentation, sample code and demos.
7.  Check out a sample application that has been created using Bluemix, Watson Services, and DevOps Services for Bluemix. 
 
You can view and fork the code and deploy right from the DevOps Services code editor! (see tutorial at https://hub.jazz.net/tutorials/gitweb/)
• In Edit Code mode choose Fork code into your project 
• Change the application and host name
• Click the deploy button 
• (If there is a value under App Services -- move over to Existing Services) The sample Bluemix Watson app allows you to add different sample text and get it analyzed.

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