What WolframAlpha is all about.

1. Wolfram|Alpha
Computational Knowledge Engine

2. What is Wolfram|Alpha?

3. Computational
knowledge engine.

4. “It generates output by doing
computations from its own
internal knowledge base, instead
of searching the web and
returning links.”

5. “Wolfram|Alpha's long-term
goal is to make all systematic
knowledge immediately
computable and accessible to
everyone.”

6. • Contains 10+ trillion pieces of
data
• 50,000 types of algorithms and
models
• Linguistic capabilities for
1000+ domains

7. How’s it different from...
?

8. vs.

9. Google scrapes and indexes all information on the web.
S Web
OG Pages
BL
Micro-
BLOGS PDFs

10. You then get a really long list of search results.

11. You have to sort through all of it. That takes time.
Oh hell
no!

12. As an example, let’s search for the word “dog”
DOG

13. Over 382 million results for
WOOF!

14. vs.

15. WolframAlpha gets all their data from several
trusted databases, the primary one being their
own... Wolfram Mathematica

16. What is Mathematica?
• Computational software program
• Started over 20 years ago by Wolfram
• Proprietary software
• Used by Fortune 500, government departments, universities, many others
• Used by all of the Fortune 50 companies in various industries
• Aerospace
• Economics
• Statistics
• Chemistry
• Web development
• Astronomy
• Biological sciences

17. Essentially...Mathematica is database that feeds WolframAlpha
Wolfram Mathematica WolframAlpha Computational Knowledge Engine

18. Instead of giving you long
lists of search results, like
Google...
WolframAlpha provide results
from curated and structured
data constantly being
collected

19. Primary Source
Mathematica
Wikipedia
Alexa.com Background
Sources &
U.N. Data References
U.S. Census Bureau
World Health Organization
Encyclopedia Britannica
Office of Travel & Tourism

20. Now, let’s search for the word “dog”
DOG

22. Let’s try some searches

23. Mobile Apps
iPad iPhone Android

24. QUESTIONS