Watson Discovery

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Please use the Watson Apps Community, and the Discovery Topic Group for collecting links to high quality technical enablement materials.

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This is a “landing page” for Watson Discovery. Look here for links to high value technical content specific for this service.

Discovery API Reference - The API reference page.
Watson Discovery at the Size You Want - a blog post that helps you determine the size that you will need for your Discovery instance, as well as the costs associated with it. It also helps you make sure that you deploy the correct sized repository.
Explore the news and gather insights using Watson Discovery - Nice tutorial on how to use the news reading and curation capabilities in the Discover services, and how to use some of the basic functionality to get insights into what the news is.
The IBM Advantage for Cognitive Discovery Cloud Architecture - hesitated to add this because it is a LITTLE bit of a “rah-rah” sales pitch. However, it does a nice job of explaining the Discovery service, shares some reference architectures, and talks about the importance of good data and data handling.

Sample UI and code pattern for Discovery with Node.js - the demo video is 15 minutes long, and you can just go and grab the code out of GitHub. Nice way to get yourself kickstarted with using Discovery with Node.js.
Learning Code patterns for Discovery use Cases - a Watson developer learning path that helps you get comfortable with using Discovery with your code, and provides some code patterns for most of the common Watson Discovery use-cases.
Finding Custom Models in Discovery - a quick bit of Python code that tells you where you have custom models applied in your Discovery instance. Nice example of using the Python SDK.

Build a configurable, retail-ready chatbot - this is a good example of integrating usage of Assistant and Discovery, along with some other things. It includes code as well.
Extending Your Watson Chatbot - article describing how to enable the Watson Assistant/Watson Discovery integration, allowing you to extend the capabilities of your chatbot to address those “long tail” questions.