If you’ve never done so before, it’s worth taking a moment to brush up on the difference between these two concepts, in Census terminology. Over the next few weeks, we’ll also share some examples of how Wolfram|Alpha can help you find and analyze information about education, income, and more.īut first, let’s take a look at two of the most frequently asked for demographic topics in Wolfram|Alpha: race and Hispanic origin. But that’s only a small fraction of what we can do with this wealth of detailed demographic data. In our first post on American Community Survey estimates in Wolfram|Alpha, we showed you how Wolfram|Alpha could answer questions about the age and sex of the population in practically any town or region in the United States. The apatosaurus is potentially twice as long as the T-Rex, and weighs several times as much-but curiously enough, the public is more interested in the T-Rex, as evidenced by how many more times its Wikipedia page is queried. “They never saurus coming!” you could say. Wolfram|Alpha knows that not everyone knows that, though, so if we query “Compare T-Rex, Brontosaurus,” we get information on both Tyrannosaurus Rex and Apatosaurus. I recently learned that the brontosaurus is formally called an apatosaurus. Luckily, Wolfram|Alpha can compute answers to all sorts of queries kids (or people who self-identify as kids) have, too.
A little over two years ago, we wrote a blog post entitled “ 10 Fun Questions Kids Can Answer with Wolfram|Alpha.” Since then, however, our blogs have focused on expanded functionality, socioeconomic data, sports data, and all sorts of things that are really cool but, truthfully, geared toward people whose ages are in the double digits. If I may be so bold as to make a value judgment, kids are-if nothing else-totally super awesome.
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