The Science behind the Watson Tone Analyzer and Demo (Technical Meetup) - IBM Watson and Cognitive Computing (San Jose, CA) - Meetup

Have you ever experienced  seeming to offend some people without realizing it. It is easy to do with the written word. Lacking visual or auditory clues the tone of your message often is lost or misconstrued. This can cause a fatal break down in communications in business or social events.

Here comes "WATSON' (again?)

Wonder how your message might be perceived by the end user? Perhaps a bit too angry in your emails? Tone Analyzer can help. The IBM Watson™ Tone Analyzer Service uses linguistic analysis to detect three types of tones from text: emotion, social tendencies, and language style. 

Emotions identified include things like anger, fear, joy, sadness, and disgust. Identified social tendencies include things from the Big Five personality traits used by some psychologists. These include openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and emotional range. Identified language styles include confident, analytical, and tentative. 

Overview of the Watson™ Tone Analyzer Service 

The IBM Watson™ Tone Analyzer Service uses linguistic analysis to detect three types of tones from written text: emotions, social tendencies, and writing style. Emotions identified include things like anger, fear, joy, sadness, and disgust. Identified social tendencies include things from the Big Five personality traits used by some psychologists. These include openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional range. Identified writing styles include confident, analytical, and tentative. 

Users can input email and other written media into the Tone Analyzer service and use the results to determine if your writing comes across with the emotional impact, social tone, and writing style that you want your intended audience to see. 

Tone Analyzer Service Use Cases 

- Personal and business communications - Anyone could use the Tone Analyzer service to get feedback about their communications, which could improve the effectiveness of the messages and how they are received. 
- Market research - Financial advisors and investors could use the Tone Analyzer service to look at the tones reflected in announcements and reports from the companies that they are researching and investing in. 
- Self-branding - Bloggers and journalists could use the Tone Analyzer Service to get feedback on their tone and fine-tune their writing to reflect a specific personality or style. 
- Automated contact-center agent - If a human client that is interacting with an automated call-center agent is agitated or angry, it is likely reflected in the choice of words they use to explain their problem. An automated agent could use the Tone Analyzer Service to detect those tones, and be programmed to respond to them.

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The Science behind the Watson Tone Analyzer and Demo (Technical Meetup) - IBM Watson and Cognitive Computing (San Jose, CA) - Meetup

WATSON HERE:

Jason Anderson: How to add IBM Watson to your projects

Mankind has great difficulty dealing with Exponential Change. The rate of change challenges our ability to cope and adapt to it..  Something health providers, hospitals and caregivers are struggling with more and more in their challenge in  health reform, affordable care act, accountable care act, ICD 10, Meaningful Use, MACRA, MIPS and more. These changes distract from patient care as well as add to the  output from healthcare 

As this occurs it is necessary to use that which we have developed....computer artificial intelligence. An elementary form of this allows complex calculations for genomics, space travel, neurolinguistics which allows speech recognition and translation.

If you have some computer fluency, this is probably straight forward. It seems to be a bit like developing an app.

Most physicians are familiar with Watson, often called artificial intelligence.  You may have thought WATSON access was expensive and limited to enterprise health systems. Not so. The video explains the basics.

Jason Anderson is a Cognitive Architect and Partner at Comp Three Inc. in Silicon Valley. He helps clients improve their business and products by leveraging cutting edge Cognitive and Analytic technologies. Additionally he has been assisting IBM in building new Watson offerings.

Jason previously spent five years as a Cloud Architect for IBM

Register for WATSON

Once you have registered you will be able to explore free for 30 days.
Dashboard is a good place to begin
The Top Banner also can be used as the Main Menu
There is full documentation and pricing for using Watson based upon runtime resources used.

Ref: The Design and Implementation of Probabilistic Programming Languages
Slideshare by Noah D. Goodman and Andreas Stuhlmüller

Additional Background Information and References:

Ginni Rometty, CEO IBM | Code Conference 2016

Ray Kurzweil Interviewed By Steven Chu

Watson Is not the Only Player in Artificial Intelligence

Google's Deep Mind Explained! - Self Learning A.I.

EYE-OPENING VR APP ON LIVING WITH AUTISM

The National Autism Society adopts Virtual Reality to bring awareness to Autism. This very real video gives ordinary people a taste of what the autism experience is for those afflicted with the disorder.

The sights and sounds of everyday life have become background noise to most of us; for someone with autism, it can be quite terrifying.

Through the power of virtual reality, the National Autism Society wants to give each of us a passing glimpse into what life is like for someone on the autism spectrum. The simulation is a remake of their previous video about a boy with autism who quickly becomes overwhelmed by flickering lights, the whir of the indoor climate control and the ever-present tapping of shoes on the tile floor.

Watch the 360 degree virtual reality version of our TMI film

Following the phenomenal success of our TMI film, we've produced a 360 degree virtual reality version to help you to feel what it might be like to get too much information. You can download the app for free below, get your own cardboard goggles and watch the film on YouTube, or catch the film on tour at a shopping centre near you. The app requires iOS 6.0/Android 4.4 or better and an appropriate mobile phone.

EYE-OPENING VR APP ON LIVING WITH AUTISM

ONC releases data for top vendors used in EHR Incentive Program

Where did all that EHR incentive money go ?  What systems were most used to attain the goals of ONC?



figures are from 2011 and 2014

The top 10 certified health IT vendors for hospitals include Cerner, 1,029; Meditech, 953; Epic Systems, 869; Evident, 636; McKesson, 462; MEDHOST, 359; Allscripts, 235; Sunquest Information Systems, 200; FairWarning Technologies, 172; and Iatric Systems, 161.

The ranking, with full results, can be found here.

The top 10 certified health IT vendors reported by ambulatory healthcare professionals participating in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program include: Epic Systems, 83,673; Allscripts, 33,127; eClinicalWorks, 25,524; NextGen Healthcare, 19,676; GE Healthcare, 17,704; Cerner, 15,104; athenahealth 14,570; Greenway Health, 12,704; Practice Fusion, 8,523; and McKesson, 7,347.

The ranking, with full results, can be found here.

The top 10 certified health IT vendors for hospitals include Cerner, 1,029; Meditech, 953; Epic Systems, 869; Evident, 636; McKesson, 462; MEDHOST, 359; Allscripts, 235; Sunquest Information Systems, 200; FairWarning Technologies, 172; and Iatric Systems, 161.

The ranking, with full results, can be found here.

The top 10 certified health IT vendors reported by ambulatory healthcare professionals participating in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program include: Epic Systems, 83,673; Allscripts, 33,127; eClinicalWorks, 25,524; NextGen Healthcare, 19,676; GE Healthcare, 17,704; Cerner, 15,104; athenahealth 14,570; Greenway Health, 12,704; Practice Fusion, 8,523; and McKesson, 7,347.

The ranking, with full results, can be found here.

Many hospitals chose to develop their own proprietary systems. The three leading vendors are Epic, Cerner and McKesson.

ONC releases data for top vendors used in EHR Incentive Program | Health Data Management