Building the Watson project

Now, let's see how to build this project.

Loading your data

In Chapter 2, A Basic Watson Project, (in the Loading Your Data section), we loaded a file formatted as a Microsoft Excel worksheet. In this chapter, we will use those same steps to load our supply chain dataset. Rather than repeat those instructions here, we'll provide a few data-specific FAQs:

1. In practice, the most common file exchange format is either an Excel file or a comma-separated (CSV) text file, and Watson Analytics is happy with both formats, as long as you understand that Watson wants lists of data, not formatted report files (files containing nested rows or column headings, or total and subtotal rows).
2. In addition...