Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha

This workshop was presented by Samuel Chen. Demo of WolframAlpha website – data is already curated from the Wolfram database. There is a useful intro video on the website and has a mobile app (although you can access the website through a mobile browser). Some examples of what it can do:

  • nutritional info for coffee and bagel
  • plotting mathematical formula
  • cross word puzzles
  • comparing sets of data (employment vs. house prices)
  • solving differential equations (showing steps)
  • sequences
  • generate QR codes

You can also download as .pdf files (Wolfram|Alpha-mooreslaw) and images:

Moore's Law from wolframalpha

Mathematica is application software. This can call data from the WA website. In this software you can manipulate graphs and variable.  Also there is a WA demonstration site. This allows students to interact with the data/graphs/whatever.  Sam showed an Economics text he had put in Mathematica and had inserted dynamic graphs to show supply/demand relationships etc.

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