Wolfram Computation Meets Knowledge

Date Archive: 2016 July

Products

Introducing Wolfram|Alpha Add-ons for Google Drive

Wolfram|Alpha answers a ton of computational and factual questions every day---through our website, mobile apps, APIs, and from within the Wolfram Language itself. Now we would like to introduce a new way to harness the power of computation with the Wolfram|Alpha Add-ons for Google Drive. These free add-ons for Google Docs and Google Sheets enable you to bring up a Wolfram|Alpha sidebar next to your file or get Wolfram|Alpha results instantly, all without interrupting your workflow. To install these add-ons in your Google Drive, click the buttons at the top of our support page.
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Finding the Most Unhygienic Food in the UK

The UK, like many other countries, runs a food hygiene inspection system that tries to ensure that establishments with poor hygiene standards improve or are shut down. As is often the case, the data collected for operational reasons can provide a rich source of insight when viewed as a whole. Questions like "Where in the UK has the poorest food hygiene?", "What kinds of places are the most unhygienic?", and "What kinds of food are the most unhygienic?" spring to mind. I thought I would apply Mathematica and a little basic data science and provide the answers. The collected data, over half a million records, is updated daily and is openly available from an API, but this API seems to be targeted at performing individual lookups, so I found it more efficient to import the 414 files from this site instead.
Education & Academic

Wolfram Language Books around the World

The population of Wolfram Language speakers around the globe has only grown since the language's inception almost thirty years ago, and we always enjoy discovering users and authors who share their passion for Wolfram technologies in their own languages. So in this post, we are highlighting foreign-language books around the world that utilize Wolfram technologies, from a mathematical toolbox in Japanese to an introduction on bioinformatics from Germany.