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Date Archive: 2021 September

Education & Academic

Census Data Explorations at the Wolfram Data Science Boot Camp

September 24, 2021

I recently finished the two-week Wolfram Data Science Boot Camp, and I learned a great deal about how to take a project from an initial question to a cohesive and visual answer. As we learned, the multiparadigm data science approach has multiple steps:

Kevin Reiss, Outreach & Communications

Computation & Analysis

Analyzing Episode Data for The Office Series with the Wolfram Language

September 17, 2021

In May 2021, “All 185 Episodes of The Office, Ranked” dropped on Mashable. In this article, author Tim Marcin distilled a year of research in which he watched every episode of the beloved NBC sitcom The Office, rating each one in four categories. It’s a great article that adds commentary and quotes to the rankings.

Joel Klein, Distributed Systems Engineering

Computation & Analysis

How to Make an xkcd Comic with a Tiny Tweetable Algorithm Discover Fun Facts about Namesake Cities

September 10, 2021

Did you know there are no beaches in Miami? “No, The Other One”: Miami, Arizona, a classic Western copper boomtown 80 miles east of Phoenix... but obviously not the Phoenix in Oregon.

Vitaliy Kaurov, Director of Community Engagement

Education & Academic

New Wolfram U Course Explores Data Visualization

September 1, 2021

After a few months of brainstorming ideas, developing notebooks and scripts and refining videos through several rounds of editing and refilming, we are pleased to announce that the Visual Explorations in Data Science massive open online course (MOOC) is now available.

Hamza Alsamraee, Document & Media Systems Mads Bahrami, Academic Innovation Support