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Data Visualization with Wolfram Language

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Requirements: This course requires basic working knowledge of Wolfram Language.

Certification Levels: Completion

With the use of a curated dataset from the Wolfram Data Repository, this course shows how to quickly visualize different data structures and how to make your graphics ready to publish and share. Domain-specific functions as well as general techniques are shared for getting the most out of your graphics. The course is intended for anyone who wants to learn more about data visualization using Wolfram Language.

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.

Descriptive and Exploratory Statistics

Video Lesson | FREE

The Wolfram Language provides numerous functions for describing and visualizing properties of data. This class shows how charts, plots and a variety of graphics can be used for understanding the nature of a dataset, the population from which it was sampled and the relationship between variables in the data or underlying population.

Designing Interactive Demonstrations

Video Lesson | FREE

This class gives pro tips and best practices for authoring your own Demonstrations, correcting common problems, testing your Demonstrations and joining the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. The class is for those who have an interest in creating Demonstrations suitable for classroom use or joining the Demonstrations Project. Basic knowledge of the Wolfram Language is recommended.

Developing Applications in the Wolfram Language

Video Lesson | FREE

Discover different ways that you can extend the Wolfram Language, from a simple function to a multi-component application. Learn about the available tools to create, package and deliver your applications and extensions to users. The class is for those who have basic familiarity with the Wolfram Language.

Developing Graphical User Interfaces with Wolfram Language

Video Course | FREE

In this course, you will learn how to make interesting interactive and dynamic controls that are visually appealing.

Developing Systems Biology Models

Video Lesson | FREE

Requirements: Some experience with SystemModeler is recommended for the course.

This course provides an introduction to the BioChem library and the Systems Biology add-on and teaches you how you can build, simulate and analyze biochemical models using System Modeler and the Wolfram Language.

Discovering the Educational Potential of Wolfram|Alpha

Video Lesson | FREE

Discover the educational potential of Wolfram|Alpha. Browse examples in science and technology, society and culture, mathematics and everyday life. Compute accurate fact-based answers and generate visual results with the use of curated data and knowledge and dynamic computation. Access step-by-step solutions for chemistry, calculus, basic math problems and more. Click Open Code buttons to compute in the cloud with your Wolfram|Alpha results and provide unlimited practice problems with Wolfram Problem Generator.

Discrete Calculus Concepts and Applications

Video Lesson | FREE

This video gives a broad overview of discrete calculus functions in the Wolfram Language, along with applications to fractals, sequence recognition and the study of algorithms. This class requires no previous Wolfram Language experience.

Does Gender Help with Your Maths Score?

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires knowledge of common data visualisations (pie charts, bar charts, histograms) and statistics (min-max, mean, median, range).

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

The ability to decide whether group A is different, either better or worse, than group B is an important technique within computational thinking and data science. It is useful in many areas, from medical experiments to sales figures to environmental changes. This Computational Thinking module introduces you to how problems like this can be tackled, first on small datasets, then on a national scale, comparing results to published reports.

Dynamic Visualization in the Wolfram Language

Video Lesson | FREE

Videos, animations and interactive infographics are popular features in scientific, technical and popular media. This class illustrates the principles behind constructing graphics sequences, manipulating a simulated camera, building an interactive interface and more. The class is for those who want to explore how to customize dynamic visualizations with the Wolfram Language. Some familiarity with the Wolfram Language and visualization principles is helpful.

Ecological Research with Wolfram Language

Special Event | FREE

Certification Levels: Attendance

Join this colloquium to hear overviews of recent work in ecology by research experts from around the world. This event will feature a series of short presentations by academic speakers focused on their recent ecological research, highlighting how they have used Wolfram Language tools in their work. Attendees will gain insights into the application of computational approaches to ecological studies, ranging from structural and spatial ecology to food web dynamical modeling, demonstrating the versatility and capability of Wolfram Language in addressing critical ecological challenges.

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.

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 the Neural Network Framework from Building to Training

Video Lesson | FREE

This video showcases the easy-to-use framework available in the Wolfram Language to build, modify, train and deploy neural networks. Learn how the Wolfram Language simplifies the process of encoding input and decoding output for neural nets. Also introduced are layers (almost 30 different types)—the basic building blocks for constructing neural networks—and the process of connecting them in chains and graphs to build complicated networks according to your requirements. This class is intended for users who have a basic familiarity with neural nets and who would like to explore the Wolfram Language features that make the process of building and training networks more intuitive.

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.

Exploring Wolfram|Alpha Mobile & Tablet Apps

Video Lesson | FREE

In this video class, you will see how Wolfram|Alpha mobile apps give you access to the world of computable knowledge wherever you go. You will be introduced to the key features of the Wolfram|Alpha mobile app and will get a glimpse of the extensive reference data and computational power available in the Wolfram|Alpha-powered Reference Apps, Professional Assistant Apps and Personal Assistant Apps.

Fast Introduction for Programmers

Video Course | FREE

Certification Levels: Level 1

Learn to program in Wolfram Language—fast. These videos offer a quick introduction to Wolfram Language. As a programmer, you will get up to speed with the higher-level constructs of this fully symbolic programming language. You will be introduced to a selection of its nearly 6,000 carefully integrated, built-in functions. You can also try rapid prototyping of your ideas with quick cloud deployment options, as well as access and work with an amazing collection of curated computable data built into the language itself, from within the all-in-one notebook environment. After you are done, you will be able to read and understand almost any Wolfram Language code and start programming in Wolfram Language yourself.

Fast, Fun and Functional Cloud Apps

Video Lesson | FREE

This video lesson shows examples of three fun and simple yet functional apps, created in minutes and deployed to the cloud for use by others. If you have an idea for a computational app that you would like to either prototype or publish, watch this video and follow a Wolfram developer as they demonstrate the steps for building the program, automating it and finally deploying it to the cloud.

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.

Financial Statistics

Video Lesson | FREE

Requirements: The course is for those who have basic familiarity with Mathematica. General knowledge of mathematics is recommended.

Statistics is a powerful tool for analyzing and drawing conclusions from financial data. This lesson focuses on the statistical analysis of financial data, including computation of descriptive statistics, probability and estimation of distributions and various properties of common distributions. A basic knowledge of mathematics and familiarity with the Wolfram Language is recommended.

Financial Time Series Processing

Video Lesson | FREE

Financial value over time can be represented as time series objects in the Wolfram Language. This video class demonstrates how to import financial data as time series and how to inspect and specify its properties, such as temporal regularity, resampling method and window length. It explains how time series objects can be used as input to other built-in functions and also directly used for arithmetic calculations. Examples illustrate computing asset returns using log and ratios and visualizing stock trading data along with buy and sell signals.