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.
