All Classes and Courses

Getting Started with Mathematica and Wolfram Language
(Study Group Sessions)

Archived Event | FREE

Learn to use Mathematica and the programming language at its core—Wolfram Language. Start with basic explorations to get familiar with the syntax and then learn to use Wolfram GPT as a guide for writing snippets of code. Find your way through the documentation on 6000+ built-in functions and learn to use them for a range of programming tasks. You will learn to write your own functions, create visualizations, add interactivity and utilize the notebook interface to both create and present your analysis. No prior programming knowledge is required, and even seasoned users will pick up a useful trick or two.

Advancing Physics Research and Teaching with Wolfram Language

Archived Event | FREE

Certification Levels: Attendance

Learn how to leverage Wolfram’s ready-to-use physics data, powerful statistical analysis tools and state-of-the-art symbolic and numerical computation as a unified solution for physics research and teaching.

Applying Neural Networks Webinar Series

Archived Event | FREE

This webinar series takes you on a deep dive into the latest workflows for building, training and evaluating neural networks. See how neural net models are used to solve complex processing tasks involving image, audio and natural language data. Sessions include hands-on demonstrations, showing real-world applications using the latest built-in Wolfram Language functionality and neural net models. Pretrained models from the Neural Net Repository and customized models are shown.

Big Problems with Big Data: Managing Risks in AI

Archived Event | FREE

Certification Levels: Attendance

This talk explores the issues you need to consider in making data-driven decisions. It discusses topics such as when machine learning is appropriate, sources of bias, validation and explainability of models and decision-making criteria.

Biodiversity Explorations with Machine Learning
(Study Group Sessions)

Archived Event | FREE

Learn to apply machine learning techniques and Wolfram Language functions to biodiversity data. These Study Group sessions begin by introducing you to biodiversity data access functions available with the entity framework built into the Wolfram Language and in the Wolfram Function Repository. Later sessions cover examples of classification, social media text analysis, audio processing of bird sounds and deploying a trained neural network image classifier to your mobile phone. Each session includes lessons, polls to review key concepts and practice problems.

Build Custom Neural Networks

Archived Event | FREE

Certification Levels: Attendance

This webinar covers the basics of building your own neural networks and the practical steps needed to train and retrain them. No prior machine learning experience is required.

Combining Wolfram Language and R

Archived Event | FREE

Certification Levels: Attendance

With the use of a curated dataset from the Wolfram Data Repository, this course shows you how to quickly visualize different data structures and make your graphics ready to publish and share. The course is intended for anyone who wants to learn more about data visualization using Wolfram Language.

Cryptography in Wolfram Language

Archived Event | FREE

In this recorded, two-part livecoding series, Christopher Wolfram discusses some basic concepts of cryptography and shows how they are implemented as built-in functions in Wolfram Language. Encryption examples are given using both symmetric (private-key) and asymmetric (public-key) cryptography. You'll learn how symmetric and asymmetric keys differ from each other and the contexts in which one is preferred over the other. The use of different ciphers and hash code types is shown, with discussion of password and digital signature encryption use cases.

Customizing Mathematica Using Stylesheets

Archived Event | FREE

Certification Levels: Attendance

In this talk, we'll highlight the underlying structure of notebooks and how to customize it. We will then move on to the details of how stylesheets are used by Mathematica and how to use them to customize the default behavior of cell types and even make new cell types. We'll then go even further by creating our own stylesheet from scratch.

Data Science Friday Webinars: Insights from Images

Archived Event | FREE

Learn about Wolfram's multiparadigm approach to doing data science. This series focuses mainly on image analysis—starting in outer space to study images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and ending on London streets to analyze traffic images captured by "JamCams." Along the way, we stop by Mars to look at videos assembled from images taken by NASA rovers and dig into the geologic layers of South Asia as recorded by the US Geological Survey. Each webinar demonstrates the data science workflow and how to build a project pipeline through different stages, beginning with formulating questions, then wrangling and cleaning the data, performing exploratory data analysis and applying multiparadigm techniques to analyze the data, and finally, sharing the results.

Data Science Is More than Just Statistics

Archived Event | FREE

This talk will show you how to easily integrate modern data science techniques, from machine learning to image and signal processing, to get more agile insights from your data.

Data Science Webinar Series

Archived Event | FREE

Learn how you can build your data science workflow around insightful questions rather than limited traditional methods. This three-part webinar series introduces Wolfram's multiparadigm approach and demonstrates how to set up a real-world data science pipeline, implement machine learning models and curate computable data.

Deploying Computational Web Services: Getting Started with APIs, Dynamic Content and Web Apps

Archived Event | FREE

Certification Levels: Attendance

Discover how simple it is to create powerful tools and make them available throughout your company or to the wider public using APIs, cloud notebooks, forms and dynamic web content. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a fully functional, dynamic application and deploy it to the web.

Ecology and Environmental Science Modeling in Wolfram Language

Archived Event | FREE

This event offers a unique experience for students and educators keen on exploring the intersection of natural systems and computational modeling. It focuses on the foundational elements of complex systems within the realms of ecology and environmental science, making these advanced concepts accessible and engaging through a blend of theoretical and computational explorations.

EdTech for the Computational Classroom (Study Group Sessions)

Archived Event | FREE

This Daily Study Group explores the benefits of bringing computational learning to all course subjects. Lessons start with a broad overview to provide a sense of what's possible with Wolfram technology, from interactive graphs and geographic plots to financial and historical data analysis. Later lessons share examples of student computational notebooks exploring subjects like math, physics and computer science with a final lesson demonstrating Wolfram's new question and assessment framework.

Explore the Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 with Wolfram Language

Archived Event | FREE

Learn how to use Wolfram Language to predict when the eclipse will happen and how it will look from any location on April 8, 2024. Compute contact times, duration, speed, the maximum obscuration of the Sun and much more. Construct precise and detailed maps of the sky for the event, as well as maps of the Earth showing the totality path. Wolfram experts will show the calculations behind the Precision Eclipse website and demonstrate the astro capabilities and built-in knowledge of Wolfram Language that support those results.

Exploring Blockchain Functionality
(Study Group Sessions)

Archived Event | FREE

Join associates from Wolfram Blockchain Labs to learn more about the technology, concepts and functionality of blockchains. The series begins with a conceptual introduction, reviewing terminology and definitions and briefly touching on topics such as cryptography, the internet stack, Bitcoin, NFTs and computation. Later sessions focus on decentralized blockchain governance, cross-chain bridges in the Cardano ecosystem, defining and expanding the "oracle problem," the latest economic research on mutual credit currency and finally, discussion of recent news and a Study Group recap.

Exploring Web Data with Wolfram Language

Archived Event | FREE

In this recorded, two-part livecoding series, Arnoud Buzing demonstrates using the Reddit API to import data from a webpage in the JSON format and analyzing it with Wolfram Language. Dataset operations are used for deciphering the structure of the imported data. Image processing and textual analysis capabilities of the language are demonstrated, and the built-in ImageIdentify function is used to recognize imported images.

Exploring Wolfram Language

Archived Event | FREE

In this recorded, 18-part livecoding series, Arnoud Buzing guides viewers through topics and examples from Stephen Wolfram's book An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language and the accompanying open course. Subjects covered include practicalities of the language, image processing, neural networks and machine learning functionality, computation with real-world data, graphics and visualizations, programming techniques and cloud deployment. The series includes demonstrations of how to access the Wolfram Cloud. Individual sessions within this series are devoted to exploring specific topics, such as an image-classification problem using convolutional neural networks, a leaf-classification machine learning problem and animations created with atmospheric images imported from the NOAA website.

Field Theory of Games (Study Group Sessions)

Archived Event | FREE

Learn a computational approach to economics and business using the field theory of games, a dynamic model extension of game theory. See how game theory can be extended with ideas from geometry, physics and engineering. Discussions will include applied examples from economics to give students insight into the ways a systems engineering approach can be used to understand how decisions are made. No prior knowledge of game theory or Wolfram Language is assumed, so a brief introduction to both topics will be provided.

Flying on the Edge: Simulating High-G Jet Aerobatics with Wolfram System Modeler's Aircraft Library 2.0

Archived Event | FREE

Fly into the danger zone as we model the Aermacchi military jet trainer using the completely redefined structure of the new version of Wolfram System Modeler's Aircraft Library 2.0. This jet will be pushed to the limit as we design and fly high-G maneuvers like the ones performed at air shows, while we make sure that the structural integrity is not compromised through the use of a V-n diagram. For the grand finale, we will execute a challenging seven-aircraft formation flying stunt: the dazzling Delta Breakout!

Getting Started with Interactive Reporting: Building Dashboards, Visualizations and Self-Service Apps

Archived Event | FREE

Certification Levels: Attendance

Join us for our Getting Started with Interactive Reporting webinar and we'll show you how to create dynamic dashboards, visualizations, self-service apps and more, all from scratch. This webinar is ideal for anyone new to business intelligence or building dashboards or anyone who just wants to get better insights from their data.

Guiding Principles for Systems Modeling and Simulation
(Study Group Sessions)

Archived Event | FREE

Learn modeling principles applicable to dynamic systems across diverse domains from Wolfram experts. This study group uses Wolfram System Modeler to create models of real-world systems and explore modeling fundamentals. Examples that range from simulating the spread of infectious diseases to predicting the cash flow dynamics of a subscription-based business and modeling the intricate behavior of drones are covered. The first two sessions provide an introduction to modeling with System Modeler and analyzing models with Wolfram Language. Each following session is devoted to learning about a different modeling principle.

Handling Uncertainties and Calibrating System Models with Wolfram Language

Archived Event | FREE

In this Wolfram System Modeler webinar, the recently added functionality to calibrate, validate and visualize uncertainty in system models will be presented. You will learn to calibrate parameter values to match simulation results with real-world data and to visualize the uncertainty of key outputs resulting from uncertainty in parameters, initial values or inputs. Examples such as a Hohmann transfer orbit, calibration of rates in a chemical reaction and a simplified loudspeaker are explored.