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Bluemix Natural Disaster Hackathon Hangout

Kyle Brown

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Outline Who are our customers in a Natural Disaster?

Bluemix Services

Watson Services

Resiliency in Bluemix Applications

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Resources and Links

Watson Services suggestions: http://bluemixathon.devpost.com/updates/3965-pro-tips-curated-tools-from-the-bluemix-engineering-team

Slideshare of Bluemix hackathon slides: http://www.slideshare.net/kylegbrown5/how-bluemix-and-ids-can-help-in-a-natural-disaster

Bluemixathon rules and resources: http://bluemixathon.devpost.com

Presentation of hackathon ideas: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/cloud/library/cl-bluemix-life-saving-world-changing-apps-trs/index.html

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Who are our customers in a Natural Disaster?

The first question in understanding how at technology or set of technologies can help you with a problem is to understand who the customers of the technology would be. In our case, these could include:

– Victims of the Natural Disaster– First Responders– Family, Friends and Loved Ones of those affected– Utility Companies, Insurance Companies, Transport companies

The next set of questions come after you’ve identifiedyour customers

– How does this concept help them?– Will they be able to use it effectively?– How is it better than existing approaches?

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Core Services CategorizationData Storage Gateway Visualization Analysis Data Movement,

Augmentation and Validation

SQL Options IOT Embeddable Reporting

Analytics for Hadoop

Dataworks

NoSQL Options Twilio Cognitive Graph Apache Spark Pitney Bowes Geocoding

Secure Gateway IOT Realtime Insights

BigInsights for Hadoop

Watson Natural Language Translation

API Management Document Generation

DashDB

SendGrid Geospacial Analytics

Streaming Analytics

Predictive Modeling

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Bluemix Production: Alchemy API

Natural LanguageSentiment AnalysisTaxonomy and Concept Tagging

Extraction and Feed Detection

Language DetectionMicroformat Parsing

ImagesFace DetectionImage Link Extraction

Image Tagging

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Bluemix Production: Alchemy API

Sentiment Analysis

Natural Language Processing

Worked perfectly! Great experience and form factor.

Positive or negative feelings expressed in text

Disappointing and difficult to integrate.

Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian

General or directed at phrase / extracted entities

TextHTMLURL

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Bluemix Production: Tradeoff Analytics

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Bluemix DR capability

For several reasons (including the possibility of a natural disaster in Dallas – remember the hailstorms of 2012 and 1995, the tornado outbreak of 1955…) you want to always make sure that your application can run in more than one location – for Bluemix today that means both London and Dallas

deploy

CF CF

IBM DevOpsServices

CloudantReplication

App App

CloudantCloudant

deployDallas London

External DNS