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Weekly Video

Having made many eastbound trips along I-8 from San Diego to other locations (sometimes Phoenix, other times further), I’m fairly familiar with the subject of this week’s video…

Wolfram Alpha: Number crunching for people who love cities

Wolfram AlphaIt’s likely that you’ve already heard about Wolfram Alpha, a “computational knowledge engine” that computes answers rather than searching for them, like Google or Yahoo. Invented by a physicist and arguably most useful for calculating science or math questions, Wolfram Alpha also works with demographic and geographical statistics, making it really fun to play with!

So you can get an idea of how useful Wolfram Alpha can be, here are some searches I did:

Nevertheless, Wolfram Alpha cannot compute some data at the subnational … Continue Reading