The document details a webinar on building applications with the AlchemyData News API, hosted by IBM's Zach Walchuk. It covers an overview of the API, a sample application that tracks celebrity news, and provides example calls and responses. The session includes opportunities for follow-up discussions and further learning resources related to IBM Watson services.

1. Episode 1: Building an App Using the News API

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Housekeeping Items
• Webinar widgets
• Twitter - #BuildingWithWatson, @IBMWatson
• Follow up
• Webinar slides, live recording and Q&A transcript
• Watson trivia!
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Our Expert: Zach Walchuk
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Developer Evangelist,
AlchemyAPI and Watson
Developer Cloud

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What will be covered today?
• Overview of the Cognitive News API
(AlchemyData News)
• Sample Application
• Sample Call
• Live Demo
• Q&A
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Overview
• AlchemyData News collects and enhances
around 300,000 news articles every day
• The full set of AlchemyLanguage NLP enrichments
are available as fields in your query and your
output
• For more information on making calls to the News
service, see our Cognitive News episode of
Alchemist Hour
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Sample Application: Who's in the News
• Find recent mentions of celebrities using an
AlchemyData News Query
• For disambiguated celebrities, use DBpedia link to
grab a thumbnail
• Display photos with links to the articles in which the
celebrities are mentioned
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Sample Call
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https://access.alchemyapi.com/calls/data/GetNews?outputMode=
json&start=now-
1h&end=now&count=25&q.enriched.url.enrichedTitle.entities.en
tity=|type=person,disambiguated.dbpedia=dbpedia|&return=enri
ched.url.enrichedTitle.entities.entity.disambiguated,enriche
d.url.title,enriched.url.url,enriched.url.enrichedTitle.enti
ties.entity.type&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

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Sample Response
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{
"source": {
"enriched": {
"url": {
"enrichedTitle": {
"entities": [
{
"disambiguated": {
"dbpedia": "http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jeb_Bush",
"name": "Jeb Bush",
"subType": [
"Politician",
"Governor",
"PoliticalAppointer",
],
"website": "http://www.jeb.org"
},
"type": "Person"
}
]
},
"title": "Jeb Bush offers plan to repeal, replace ACA: 9 things to know",
"url": "http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/jeb-bush-offers-
plan-to-repeal-replace-aca-9-things-to-know.html"
}
}
}
}

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Are you ready to get started?
• Get more examples from the Watson App Gallery
• The AlchemyData News docs can be found here
• Host your applications on IBM Bluemix and get full access
to all Watson Developer Cloud services
• Join us for more discussion on Slack: go to http://wdc-
slack-inviter.mybluemix.net/ for an invite
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Q&A

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What’s next?
• Further discussion on Slack
• Follow up email
• The series continues bi-weekly on Wednesdays @ 12pm ET / 9am PT
• October 28th: Taking Speech to a New Level of
Intelligence with Watson’s Language Services

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Thank you for attending!
Contact us
Phone: 1-877-253-0308
Email: zach@alchemyapi.com
Online: Watson Developer Cloud