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Making the World’s Data Computable
Keynote talk given at the Wolfram Data Summit in Washington, DC on Thursday, September 9, 2010. Well, I should start off by admitting one thing. This Data Summit was my idea. And I have to say that...
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Advance of the Data Civilization: A Timeline
The precursors of what we’re trying to do with computable data in Wolfram|Alpha in many ways stretch back to the very dawn of human history—and in fact their development has been fascinatingly tied to...
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Launching a Democratization of Data Science
It’s a sad but true fact that most data that’s generated or collected—even with considerable effort—never gets any kind of serious analysis. But in a sense that’s not surprising. Because doing data...
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The Personal Analytics of My Life
One day I’m sure everyone will routinely collect all sorts of data about themselves. But because I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago. I actually assumed...
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Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
Note added: Since this blog was written, Facebook has modified their API to make much less information available about Facebook friends. While I think adding privacy controls is a good idea, what...
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Talking about the Computational Future at SXSW 2013
Last week I gave a talk at SXSW 2013 in Austin about some of the things I’m thinking about these days—including quite a few that I’ve never talked publicly about before. Here’s a video, and a slightly...
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Data Science of the Facebook World
More than a million people have now used our Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook. And as part of our latest update, in addition to collecting some anonymized statistics, we launched a Data...
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Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) on Every Raspberry Pi
Last week I wrote about our large-scale plan to use new technology we’re building to inject sophisticated computation and knowledge into everything. Today I’m pleased to announce a step in that...
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The Wolfram Data Drop Is Live!
Where should data from the Internet of Things go? We’ve got great technology in the Wolfram Language for interpreting, visualizing, analyzing, querying and otherwise doing interesting things with it....
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Scientific Bug Hunting in the Cloud: An Unexpected CEO Adventure
The Wolfram Cloud Needs to Be Perfect The Wolfram Cloud is coming out of beta soon (yay!), and right now I’m spending much of my time working to make it as good as possible (and, by the way, it’s...
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Launching the Wolfram Data Repository: Data Publishing that Really Works
After a Decade, It’s Finally Here! I’m pleased to announce that as of today, the Wolfram Data Repository is officially launched! It’s been a long road. I actually initiated the project a decade ago—but...
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What Is a Computational Essay?
A Powerful Way to Express Ideas People are used to producing prose—and sometimes pictures—to express themselves. But in the modern age of computation, something new has become possible that I’d like to...
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