Wolfram|Alpha’s Facebook analytics ranks high among our all-time most popular features. By now, millions of people have used Wolfram|Alpha to analyze their own activity and generate detailed an...
Photography by Tracy Howl and Paul Clarke Has our newfound massive availability of data improved decisions and lead to better democracy around the world? Most would say, “It’s highly question...
For many of us, the end of summer is a time of change. You might be going to college, starting a new year of school, or taking a new job. Even if you’re not, there’s a decent chance that you�...
https://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/08/27/tracking-life-changes-with-personal-analytics/
We here at Wolfram are, by and large, a bunch of nerds. This shouldn’t be that surprising, especially after looking at the people and fictional characters we’ve turned into mathematical curve...
https://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/08/12/set-the-curve-with-wolframalpha/
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...
https://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/04/24/data-science-of-the-facebook-world/
Superlatives, like hyperbole, are my favorite thing. So it is with the greatest excitement that I am devoting this blog post to superlatives and range searching, as Wolfram|Alpha has again expand...
Today we’re excited to announce the first upgrade to Wolfram|Alpha’s Personal Analytics for Facebook. There’s much more to analyze, see, and do—here’s a quick look! One of the most shar...
https://blog.wolframalpha.com/2013/01/23/introducing-expanded-personal-analytics-for-facebook/
The US elections are over, and with a few exceptions, we can now answer the question “What happened?” We know who won the 2012 presidential election, we know there was an upset in the Massa...
Wolfram|Alpha answers millions of queries every day. For instance: cos(pi/7)^2 + 5 csc(pi/17) – 9 factor x^5 – 6 x^4 + 13 x^3 – 13 x^2 + 6x – 1 express 99.99 through pi Is 999999999888888...
https://blog.wolframalpha.com/2012/10/19/the-numbers-of-wolframalpha/
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...
https://blog.wolframalpha.com/2012/08/30/wolframalpha-personal-analytics-for-facebook/