Since version 7, Mathematica includes gigabytes of curated data relevant to many different fields, including physics, chemistry, graph theory, finance, geography and many more.
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How to make a 3D globe?
There are many ways to create a 3D Earth that is rotatable (see here, here, related here), but most of them have some drawbacks. These issues mainly stem from either ...
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Computing Many Slow I/O Operations
In working on a custom stock screener, I often need to run mathematica code like this:
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Is it possible to invoke the OEIS from Mathematica?
I had always wondered if there might be a way to write a function, which I'll call OEISData[], that more or less works as a curated data function for The On-Line ...
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Is there a way to get AbsoluteTime to correctly report absolute time differences?
Absolute time supposedly reports the "total number of seconds" between two dates, but it does not. For example because of the leap second applied at 2012-06-30T23:59:60Z
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How is AstronomicalData interpreting its date arguments?
It is easy to confirm that the AstronomicalData is not interpreting its arguments as UTC (or "GMT", which is, in any case, ambiguous) dates by verifying that the ...
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Problem with Financial Data
I'm following http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/FinancialData.html
I get the following:
In[6]:= DateListLogPlot[FinancialData["^DJI", All]]
During ...
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Background image in a polygon / CountryData
Is it possible to use a background image in a polygon without rasterizing the polygon?
I tried with textures, but they seem to be viable only for simple polygons.
I want to put a flag as the ...
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The Orbit and Perigee of the Flamsteed comet
Historical context
This year we have the 330-th anniversary of the Battle of Vienna - one of the great formative events of European history, it took place on September 12, 1683.
Kara Mustafa, Grand ...
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Built-in Mathematica data: are they cached? how to speed up the loading?
Mathematica has numerous built-in data for science and math. Every first call to a data function in a new Mathematica session will "re-initialize indices" (download the data). Is there a way to store ...
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Find elements in a decay chain using IsotopeData
I am trying to write a program using the Mathematica function IsotopeData, but am finding the code troublesome. Due to my (relative) familiarity with Python, I am ...
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Why is AstronomicalData so slow?
I'm having trouble getting some pretty simple functions using AstronomicalData to perform at anywhere near the speed I need them to.
For example, I have many ...
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Why do DateList, DateString, and AstronomicalData ignore $TimeZone?
My reading of the documentation for DateList and DateString lead me to believe that both functions use ...
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Why do some CountryData flags render at low resolution?
This question is related to data analysis introduced here
Why do some flag images from the CountryData dataset render at very low resolution both in Front End and ...
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How to provide your own example data for a custom package?
A nice feature of the mathematica documentation is the copious use of ExampleData in illustrating functionality. I would like to provide some example data for a ...
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Standard deck of 52 playing cards in curated data?
I am not sure how to find out what all is included as curated data. For example, are the individual images of each of the 52 cards in a standard deck of playing cards included?
If not, is there a way ...
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Can a LatticeData image be displayed in a space filled fashion
I'd like a FaceCenteredCubic image as in the in LatticeData
docs, but space packed, and cropped on all the boundaries, so that it illustrates the geometry of the calculation that leads to the ...
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How do I determine astronomical transit times?
Mathematica, through the "legacy" Scientific Astronomer package, used to have the ability to easily determine accurate transit times of astronomical objects simply, with ...
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Problem achiving effect I want with ColorFunction
I want to create a plot showing historical annual maximum and minimum temperatures. I've figured out how to get 10 years of historical temperature data from Wolfram|Alpha. The plot below shows the ...
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Getting all the countries' flags and then using them as chart labels?
What's the code to list all the world's flags?
CountryData["G8", "Flag"]
works to get those particular flags, but what about all the world's flags?
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define the range of Longitude from 0-360 in the World plot from CountryData
How can I change the Longitude range to 0-360 in the such plots?
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