Computable Data—Already Updated in Mathematica
Well, Mathematica 6 has only been out a week, and I’m happy to announce that we’ve already released an update! What’s better, you probably already have it if you use Mathematica 6!
How is that possible?
After exploring the What’s New website, you might have noticed the page for Load-on-Demand Curated Data, which says our “efficient load-on-demand mechanism makes hundreds of gigabytes of carefully curated and continually updated data immediately available inside Mathematica for use in computations.”
We’ve done a lot of work to aggregate data in a variety of disciplines, from chemistry to graph theory, geography to linguistics. This data is collected from a broad range of sources and processed both automatically and by knowledgeable experts here at Wolfram Research, with the goal of providing data that is consistent, computable and accurate.
How is this data delivered to you? At first, you might guess it’s shipped along with the many other features of the product. But the box doesn't have a dozen CDs in it and there’s only a single download from our online store. That’s because Mathematica itself automatically downloads the data it needs, when it needs it.