{"id":1532,"date":"2010-02-14T21:58:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T01:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:11:03","slug":"wolfram-alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2010\/02\/14\/wolfram-alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfram | Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now Wolfram|Alpha might already be old news, but just in case you haven&#8217;t heard about it, you should really check it out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/02\/wolfram-alpha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1533\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/02\/wolfram-alpha.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Caffeine Vs. Aspirin\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wolfram|Alpha<\/a> is set-up to look like a Search Engine similar to Google, but it is actually a &#8220;computation machine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This resource is a good tool for finding statistics, socio-economic data, information on a date, figuring out equations, and has data on specific locations.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/examples\/\" target=\"_blank\">Examples by Topic<\/a> page that Wolfram|Alpha could be useful for the following Subjects &#8212; Math, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Education, Sociology, Criminal Justice, Engineering, Geography, and a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Just to get a feel for it, I suggest plugging in your Birthday to see what you get, then try doing a comparison, for example: Scranton, PA vs. Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll at least find it to be interesting. Those of you who work with numbers, facts, and data might find this &#8220;computation machine&#8221; to be downright <em>awesome<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\">http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now Wolfram|Alpha might already be old news, but just in case you haven&#8217;t heard about it, you should really check it out&#8230; Wolfram|Alpha is set-up to look like a Search Engine similar to Google, but it is actually a &#8220;computation machine.&#8221; This resource is a good tool for finding statistics, socio-economic data, information on [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[147,247,409,413,515,545],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-technology","tag-emerging-technologies","tag-information-science","tag-research","tag-research-tools","tag-tools","tag-web-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}