Wolfram Blog

1. Applying Multiparadigm Data Science: New Wolfram U Course

   Wolfram U’s latest interactive course, Multiparadigm Data Science, gives a comprehensive overview of Multiparadigm Data Science (MPDS) through a series of videos, quizzes and live computations, all running from the Wolfram Cloud. Using real-world examples, this free course provides an introduction to MPDS, strategies for improving your process and building your ideal toolkit, and the [...]

2. Enhanced Step-by-Step Solutions Now on Mobile: Announcing Wolfram|Alpha 2.0 for iOS

   Since it was first launched about ten years ago, Wolfram|Alpha has been one of the most useful sites on the web. You can use it to do arithmetic, solve differential equations, find out how many calories there are in a cake, track the airplanes near your current location, track any given constellation, find out how [...]

3. Mathematica 12 Available on the New Raspberry Pi 4

   With the recent announcement of the all-new Raspberry Pi 4, we are proud to announce that our latest development, Version 12 of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language, is available for you to use when you get your hands on the Raspberry Pi 4. Mathematica 12 is a major milestone in our journey that has spanned [...]

4. How I Used Last-Mover Advantage to Make Money: An Exploration of Yahtzee and Coin Flipping

   This week, I won some money applying a mathematical strategy to a completely unpredictable gambling game. But before I explain how, I need to give some background on last-mover advantage. Some time ago, I briefly considered doing some analysis of the dice game Yahtzee. But I was put off by the discovery that several papers [...]

5. Easter Eggs in Plain Sight, Climate Change Challenges and Knitted Images: Wolfram Community Highlights

   Wolfram Community is our favorite, continually growing forum to share and show support for projects using the Wolfram Language, connect with other Mathematica aficionados and find solutions for coding questions. It’s also a great platform for sharing computational innovations that can benefit your local community—or beyond. We’ve collected some of the exciting ways Wolfram Community [...]

6. Creating an Animated Historical Map Function for the Wolfram Function Repository

   Mapping an Ancient Empire Geocomputation is an indispensable modern tool for analyzing and viewing large-scale data such as population demographics, natural features and political borders. And if you’ve read some of my other posts, you can probably tell that I like working with maps. Recently, a Wolfram Community member asked: “How do I make an [...]

7. The Wolfram Function Repository: Launching an Open Platform for Extending the Wolfram Language

   What the Wolfram Language Makes Possible We’re on an exciting path these days with the Wolfram Language. Just three weeks ago we launched the Free Wolfram Engine for Developers to help people integrate the Wolfram Language into large-scale software projects. Now, today, we’re launching the Wolfram Function Repository to provide an organized platform for functions [...]

8. How I Built a Virtual Piano with the Wolfram Language and the Unity Game Engine

   You know what’s harder than learning the piano? Learning the piano without a piano, and without any knowledge of music theory. For me, acquiring a real piano was out of the question; I had neither the funds nor space in my small college apartment. So naturally, it looked like I would have to build one [...]

9. Automated Authorship Verification: Did We Really Write Those Blogs We Said We Wrote?

   Several Months Ago… I wrote a blog post about the disputed Federalist Papers. These were the 12 essays (out of a total of 85) with authorship claimed by both Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. Ever since the landmark statistical study by Mosteller and Wallace published in 1963, the consensus opinion has been that all 12 [...]

10. Doing Data Science Better with Wolfram and the Multiparadigm Approach

    Just as Wolfram was doing AI before it was cool, so have we been doing data science since before it was mainstream. A prime example is the creation of Wolfram|Alpha—a massive project that involved engineering, modeling, analyzing, visualizing and interfacing with terabytes of data, developing a natural language interface, and deploying results in a sensible [...]