College-level business/finance/econ widgets for your website

[Kathy_Bautista]

Have you created a website for your course? Or maybe you have a personal website? If so, be sure to check out the new Wolfram|Alpha Widgets. Here are a few that you may be interested in if you teach college-level business, economics, or finance.

Three stock portfolio
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widge ... 4923ce901b
Generates a times-series graph of the portfolio value along with a correlation matrix and Markowitz efficient frontier statistics

Prime Interest Rate Data
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widge ... 11a34ff5e6
Just a simple widget to pull up prime interest rate data.

Market Capitalization
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widge ... 5b71983e06
Comparing market cap for three different companies

Health Spending in OECD Countries
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widge ... 5d969eb684
This widget computes a summary of public, private, and total health spending, in four categories, for OECD countries.

US State Economic Comparisons
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widge ... 467c2648b9
This widget allows you to compare socioeconomic data between any two U.S. states.

United States Government by Administration
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widge ... a77a08453b
This widget provides United States Government financial and economic information by Administration.

View more widgets:
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widge ... gories.jsp

Wolfram|Alpha Widgets are free, personalized mini-apps that leverage the depth and breadth of the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine. Widgets can do almost anything, from calculating calories in a recipe to solving complex equations. If Wolfram|Alpha can answer your query, you can use it to create a widget.

Take a tour:
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widgets/tour.html

Browse the gallery:
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widgets/gallery/

Build your own widgets:
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widgetbuilder

-Kathy

[telefunkenvf14]

Hi Kathy,

I actually received notice of the widgets website via a former student of mine...

Anyways, I tried to log in (using my regular Wolfram ID---using my email address as my username) and was unable to gain access. I also tried my username and PW from the Faculty forum, but that didn't work either. I did send an email to the web admin for the widgets site.

Are you aware of a workaround? I hesitate to generate another ID because I hate having multiple usernames and PW floating around...

-RG

[Kathy_Bautista]

Hi Kathy,

I actually received notice of the widgets website via a former student of mine...

Anyways, I tried to log in (using my regular Wolfram ID---using my email address as my username) and was unable to gain access. I also tried my username and PW from the Faculty forum, but that didn't work either. I did send an email to the web admin for the widgets site.

Are you aware of a workaround? I hesitate to generate another ID because I hate having multiple usernames and PW floating around...

-RG

Hi RG,

Actually, your existing Wolfram ID should work just fine. Keep in mind that some of the Wolfram web sites don't yet utilize the Wolfram ID system, so for example, your login for site.wolfram.com would not be the same as your Wolfram ID.

Here's the link to sign into the Wolfram|Alpha Widget Builder.
https://developer.wolframalpha.com/portal/signin.html

When you first sign in using your existing Wolfram ID, it will ask you to create a screen name for your account. Your screen name will be displayed in the public gallery when you publish a widget. You will be able to edit your screen name in the "My Profile" section of the Developer Portal.

Let me know if run into any other problems.

-Kathy