by Angela Guess
Wolfram Alpha is doing their part to democratize data. Tomorrow the company is releasing “a new, Pro option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students), the new services includes the ability to use images, files, and even your own data as inputs instead of simple text entry. The ‘reports’ that Wolfram Alpha kicks out as a result of these (or any) query are also beefed up for Pro users, some will actually become interactive charts and all of them can be more easily exported in a variety of formats. [The Verge] sat down with Stephen Wolfram himself to get a tour of the new features and to discuss what they mean for his goal of ‘making the world’s knowledge computable.’”
The article continues, “On the data front, Wolfram Alpha uses a very large set of data sources which are verified, tested, and highly structured. The company takes all that data and ensures that it’s structured again in such a way that it can be ‘computable,’ which leads to the real power of Wolfram Alpha and explains why it’s not simply a search engine or a more reliable version of Wikipedia. Wolfram Alpha doesn’t just return information, it analyzes and does computation on your inputs and on its own data to provide ‘reports’ instead of just ‘answers.’”
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