Wolfram Alpha: Number crunching for people who love cities
Daniella
May 16, 2009
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Tags: arizona counties, economics, geographical statistics, household income, knowledge engine, life expectancy, unemployment rates, wolfram alpha
It’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:
- A simple comparison of Vancouver and Toronto
- Life expectancy worldwide
- A comparison of some US cities
- Comparison of populations in two Arizona counties
- The comparison of unemployment rates in multiple cities
- State level household income
- Comparison of California’s population as a proportion of Canada’s population
Nevertheless, Wolfram Alpha cannot compute some data at the subnational … Continue Reading
