All Classes and Courses

Building Applications with the Wolfram Neural Net Repository

Video Lesson | FREE

Learn to build applications using the neural network models available in the Wolfram Neural Net Repository. This class showcases existing models in the repository and the different tasks for which they are intended, such as classification, feature extraction, image processing, regression, language modeling and more, with new models and new application areas being added all the time. Use cases showing applications built by students from Wolfram summer programs are shared. Learn to leverage available models to create your own applications.

Built-in Machine Learning in Wolfram Language

Video Lesson | FREE

You can apply machine learning to diverse subject areas without expert-level knowledge with the help of Wolfram Language. Even though you can build complicated models from scratch, you can also use any of the existing, pre-trained models on different inputs like text, numbers and images. This video introduces the many machine learning functions available for such wide-ranging tasks as image identification, text recognition, sentiment classification and others.

Business Analytics and Research with the Wolfram Language

Video Lesson | FREE

The Wolfram Language has built-in, ready-to-use financial and socioeconomic data, including current and historical stock prices and currency exchange rates. This video shows you how to use natural language as well as built-in Wolfram Language functions to query this data and compute with it. It also demonstrates the use of automated machine learning models and customized visualization for the development and enhancement of a business intelligence workflow. Several real-world examples are used to explain how the Wolfram Language can be used for business analytics and research.

Calculus Applications and Algorithms

Video Lesson | FREE

This class provides applications of calculus functions in the Wolfram Language and a discussion of the internal methods used for solving problems.

Calculus Fundamentals

Video Lesson | FREE

This class gives a broad overview of calculus operations in the Wolfram Language. Learn details about the functionality for computing integrals and solving differential equations, and become familiar with the Wolfram Language built-in functions Integrate and DSolve. See how animations and interactive graphics are useful for understanding concepts. This class is suitable for beginners wanting to use Mathematica and the Wolfram Language to solve calculus problems.

Can I Spot a Cheat?

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires basic working knowledge of the Wolfram Language, common data visualisations (histograms) and empirical and probability distributions.

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Being able to measure variations in data and identify abnormal variation is an important skill in many fields. In the financial sector, for example, fraudulent behaviour can cost huge sums of money. In this Computational Thinking module, you will learn how to recognise patterns in data that differ “significantly” from the norm and learn how to provide evidence that the source of one dataset is different to another. You will learn how to use significance levels to quantify how unexpected the patterns or differences were, ultimately writing and interpreting your own hypothesis test.

Cause or Correlation?

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires basic working knowledge of the Wolfram Language, common data visualisations (histograms) and statistics (mean, median).

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Knowing how one variable affects another is important in many instances in real life, from medical diagnoses to environmental impacts or financial trends. In this Computational Thinking module, you will learn about dependent connections between variables, the possible cause(s) for such dependencies and how these are often misused in the media to make claims that are incorrect—particularly about how adopting one behaviour can cause something positive or negative to happen.

Collaboration and Sharing with Mathematica Online

Video Lesson | FREE

Encourage group collaboration by sharing content in the Wolfram Cloud. Mathematica Online complements desktop usage by offering cloud-based access to Wolfram Notebooks, web forms, instant APIs and other content. This video will show you how to deploy your interactive content to the cloud, where your public audience or private group can access it with their web browser, without needing a Mathematica license. You'll also learn how to embed interactive content into a webpage or CMS/LMS as well as how to share notebooks in a classroom setting or with project stakeholders.

Computation for Social Sciences

Video Lesson | FREE

Would you find it useful to have a complete, integrated and fully automated platform for doing social science computations? Learn how to use built-in and external data to explore or model concepts and ideas using Wolfram Language. Examples include analyzing texts written by different authors, mapping boundaries of historical empires, social network analysis and determining political sentiment from tweets.

Computational Audio

Video Course | FREE

Investigate and analyze audio data and learn to easily add fun effects. These videos introduce the new integrated support for audio processing in the Wolfram Language and cover audio effects, audio synthesis and audio analysis. The processing and analysis techniques you learn here can be combined with comprehensive support for signal processing, statistical analysis and machine learning to enable easy prototyping of applications in various fields, including music, speech, communication and broadcasting.

Computational Economics

Video Lesson | FREE

How could making use of a complete, highly automated and integrated platform for research and computation in economics be helpful to you? Learn different ways to access, process, simulate and analyze economic data using Wolfram Language. Examples include modeling a Nash equilibrium, predicting credit rating categories and forecasting stock prices.

Computational Zoology

Video Lesson | FREE

How would you make use of a complete, integrated and fully automated platform for zoology computations? Learn how to use Wolfram Language to access built-in and external data about different animal species and also build simple machine learning models to process zoology data. Examples include a comparative study of the fastest mammals, image recognition to identify animals and exploring biotic interactions.

Control Systems

Video Course | FREE

Design, simulate and regulate complex engineering systems interactively with the Wolfram Language. This series covers various aspects of control systems, starting with a conceptual overview and continuing with in-depth discussions on system analysis and design, including both state-space and frequency domain applications. Various examples are introduced early on and expanded upon throughout the videos, including pendulum and suspension systems controls, loudspeaker simulation, live image tracking and more.

COVID-19 Data Analysis and Visualization

Video Course | FREE

This course introduces a computational approach to the data analysis, visualization and modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic. You will learn how to access a collection of curated COVID-19 data from the Wolfram Data Repository and explore resources such as livestreams and computational essays. See how analysis and visualization combined with built-in socioeconomic data in the Wolfram Language make in-depth explorations possible. Additionally, this course covers several compartmental epidemiological models and applies them to real-life pandemic data to analyze the spread of this contagious disease.

Creating a Data Resource

Video Lesson | FREE

Start with scraped data from a webpage and finish with a published entry in the Wolfram Data Repository. Follow this step-by-step tutorial to prepare raw data for publishing, sharing and further computation in the Wolfram Cloud.

Creating Compelling Reports

Video Lesson | FREE

Data analysis is an increasingly vital professional skill, but the results of the analysis must be presented in a compelling and effective way for the audience to find meaning in the analysis. This video class shows how to create reports with cohesive, organized visualizations and share them in several different formats. Examples demonstrate setting up a scheduled workflow for repeatedly importing and analyzing data, creating visualizations and automatically generating reports at periodic intervals. The video lists multiple options for distributing and delivering reports to target audiences.

Creating Maps with Vector Graphics and Labels

Video Lesson | FREE

Vector maps look and perform better than raster maps. Wolfram Language has support for vector graphics and maps. In this video, you will learn about the advantages of using vector graphics to make maps as well as the options to customize the appearance of these maps. The primary focus of this lesson is the GeoGraphics function and its features. The lesson also demonstrates the use of tile and layer properties to manipulate the visible data in maps. Examples show how to create different styles of world, country, city and street-level maps.

Creating Notebook Palettes

Video Lesson | FREE

Palettes are notebooks with a collection of interactive controls that can be used to manipulate a primary notebook. Palettes can be created programmatically or with menu controls. This video will show how to create palettes and control their appearance and functionality with both control options and built-in functions.

Cryptography in Wolfram Language

Archived Special 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.

Curating Data and Integrating the Wolfram Data Framework

Video Course | FREE

Learn how the Wolfram Language and the Wolfram Knowledgebase, along with the Wolfram Data Framework, can be used to improve and extend your external data sources. This two-part video course provides examples of importing, cleaning, structuring and visualizing data and then publishing it to the world.

Data Importing and Exporting Quick Start

Video Lesson | FREE

The Wolfram Language makes it easy to work with your data and files. This class uses application-driven examples from a variety of areas, such as computational biology, chemistry, geospatial information systems and more, to show how straightforward it is to get data into and out of the Wolfram Language. This beginner-level class is appropriate for those who have little or no experience with the system.

Data Science Webinar Series

Archived Special 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.

Deep Neural Networks for Computer Vision

Video Course | FREE

Get started with deep learning for your computer vision and image processing applications! This video course introduces the deep learning framework integrated in Wolfram Language and shows how to use it in practice. You'll receive a quick introduction to the components of a neural network and their potential use in computer vision tasks. You will then learn to build, modify, train and deploy neural networks. Finally, with the help of real-world examples for processing and analyzing images, you will gain practical insights into effectively leveraging neural nets for your own applications.

Deploying and Running a Custom Neural Net on Your Phone

Video Lesson | FREE

Learn about creating and training a neural net image classifier application for the iPhone to identify different types of mushrooms. Follow along step by step with this tutorial using built-in Wolfram Language functions as well as external code and applications to create a fully functional app that can be immediately deployed to a phone and used right away.