There are lots of free data visualization and analysis tools out there — so many that’s it’s getting tough to keep up with them all. But in an increasingly crowded field, it’s hard not to pay attention when a service with the cachet of IBM’s Watson joins the fray.

Watson Analytics aims to bring natural language understanding to data work. That means you don’t need to structure a proper query in some specialized language to find relationships and patterns in your data; likewise, there’s no need for knowledge of statistics to decide what results are significant and which are just noise. Instead, the system does all that in the background for you.

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