Author: Louis

IBM Watson Trend in the News

We have had an incredible amount of coverage for the application my team built. Nice to see after running daily meetings and running really fast for the last four months!

ZDNet: IBM’s Watson Trend App may popularize analytics It did!

PRNewsWire: IBM’s Watson Predicts the Top Products and Trends for Black Friday

Forbes: The Hot Products For Holiday 2015: IBM Watson Launches New App That Can Predict Trends

FastCompany: “It’s making a list…” IBM’s Watson Will Predict This Holiday’s Top Gifts It made a ton of lists…

Investors Business Daily: IBM’s Watson Says Apple Watch Tops Holiday Hot List

Fortune: IBM supercomputer predicts what to buy and when this holiday season

Predictive Analytics Today: IBM Watson Trend App Forecasts Trends and Products for Holiday Season

AdAge: IBM Watson Trend App to Shoppers: Buy Your Legos Now

Information Week: IBM Watson Trend App: Big Data Meets Holiday Shopping

The Washington Post: IBM Watson tries to predict the biggest holiday shopping trends

Mashable: IBM Watson’s new app predicts the must-have toys and gifts

The Atlantic: YOUR NEW PERSONAL SHOPPING ASSISTANT

VentureBeat: IBM’s new app taps Watson to tell you which products might sell out for Christmas

IBM Watson Trend is now in the Apple App Store!

This summer I made a prototype of an app that tracks AND predicts trends and sentiment from social media to help advise shoppers of what to buy and for whom this Christmas. Since then, we assembled an amazing team and brought this vision to life in record time. It is November 11 and we have released our IBM Watson Trend application to the Apple App Store. Download and enjoy.

Hello!

I work in IBM Watson Commerce Technical Strategy group.  Recently I produced IBM Watson Trend and before that fathered IBM Commerce’s Universal Behavior Exchange.

Now I am working on a whole new way of looking at Site Search.

I started my career at Apple Computer, Inc.

At Apple, we taught machines all about humans.

At IBM, I am helping teach machines how to learn and figure things out on their own.

In former lives, I have worked with many Silicon Valley startups consulting and employed including Apple Computer, WebTV, women.com, match.com, and DemandTec.  All were either acquired or had market cap explosions.

Opinions expressed here are my own.