IBM watson analytics: Automating visualization, descriptive, and predictive statistics

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Hoyt, Robert Eugene ^a   Snider, Dallas ^a   Thompson, Carla ^a   Mantravadi, Sarita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Data mining; Machine learning; Natural language processing; Statistical data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018914766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.5810     Document Type: Article

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