Using Real-World Data in the Classroom: Wolfram U Class

Learn to use real-world data in the classroom with the Wolfram Language and Wolfram|Alpha. Free course. Subjects include: chemistry, social sciences, weather, English and other languages.

Summary
This course demonstrates how the Wolfram Language's built-in curated Knowledgebase can be used to bring real-world data, computation and visualization into the classroom for exploration and learning. Examples are given from a sampling of the thousands of represented domains, including chemistry, geography, weather and word data.

Featured Products & Technologies: Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Knowledgebase, Wolfram Language


You'll Learn To

Compute and visualize chemical data and properties
Work with geographic data, including population of countries
Access historic and current weather data to plot precipitation and other values
Use built-in dictionary search functionality to find anagrams, palindromes and properties in many languages
Look up a particular use or sense of an English word using built-in word data