Use this for questions about calling Wolfram Alpha from Mathematica. Questions about Wolfram Alpha itself are off-topic.
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How to create new “person curve”?
Wolfram|Alpha has a whole collection¹ of parametric curves that create images of famous people. To see them, enter WolframAlpha["person curve"] into a Mathematica ...
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Roughly how many times per day may WolframAlpha[] be used?
The integration of Wolfram|Alpha seems to be one of the (many!) major features of Mathematica 8. Earlier I was reading this Wolfram Blog archive and noticed quite a few articles talking about the use ...
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Interactive steam tables and phase diagrams in Mathematica
I teach an undergraduate course in Thermodynamics and I would love to use Mathematica to demonstrate the various engineering processes that involve the expansions and compressions of steam and common ...
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Problems getting clean sunrise, sunset, civil, nautical and astronomical twilight data
If in a notebook you enter:
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Getting all physical units with prefixes
How we can get the list with all physical units and prefixes from WolframAlpha and make symbols from the result to be equal their corresponding quantities like described in this post?
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In finding a logarithmic fit for some data (of the form a*Log[b*x]), WolframAlpha succeeds where Mathematica 7.0 fails, why?
I would like to fit a function of the form: $a \log(b x)$ to a set of data:
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WolframAlpha Selective SubPod Content
I am sending queries to Wolfram | Alpha from Mathematica V9 and and importing the results back into Mathematica, but I am running into a challenge in formatting the request. Specifically, I would like ...
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Nonsense Data with Wolfram Alpha + Mathematica?
I am trying to learn how to interface with WolframAlpha. When I try using the Mathematica interface I get nonsensical data. I don't know if this is a bug or if I'm doing it wrong.
My goal is to ...
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Attaching WolframAlpha data
I have used WolframAlpha since it was launched (now a pro member) but am new to Mathematica 8. Is there a way to automatically add data from WA to a Mathematica dataset? For example, what if I ...
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How can I analyse Mathematica data using Wolfram|Alpha?
How can I analyse data stored in Mathematica using Wolfram | Alpha? Here is an example:
I have a list: a = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
I can plot it in Mathematica, like ...
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Possible to batch WolframAlpha queries?
Sometimes I want some country data not available from CountryData. And issuing things like:
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Is the Wolfram | Alpha output in Mathematica not Alpha Pro?
Mathematica 8 includes "Wolfram | Alpha integration", but the features of Alpha available in Mathematica seem not to include many of those available in the "Pro" version of Alpha.
Does Mathematica 8 ...
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How do I make data retrieved from Wolfram|Alpha persist in a notebook?
I want to store hourly temperature readings retrieved from Wolfram|Alpha in an array in my notebook. If this is not possible, then tell me how to preserve the retrieved data in my notebook, so when it ...
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How can I get all the results from a Wolfram | Alpha query?
When I query Wolfram | Alpha with "city in orange county, california", it returns the first four results with a note that there are "42 total". I can then hit the "more" button until all 42 are ...
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How do I use FinancialData to obtain company revenue and income?
I'd like to make a plot of a company's revenue and income over time. I can do this via Wolfram Alpha pretty easily, just by searching "Ford revenue and earnings from 2000 to 2012". As such I can, if ...
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How to figure out how to make WolframAlpha work predictably
I'd like to get football data out of Wolfram|Alpha and into Mathematica 9, but I'm having some minor difficulty. Naturally, I'd like to know how to accomplish this task (details below), but I'm more ...
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Disagreement between FindGeoLocation and Alpha: “Where Am I?”
While trying to estimate a user's location in a notebook, I noticed that FindGeoLocation[] was extremely inaccurate. I realize that it uses an IP lookup to make ...
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Is it possible to use WolframAlpha servers to evaluate equations in Mathematica v8.0.4?
Is it possible to use WolframAlpha computational power to evaluate equations in Mathematica version 8.0.4?
The thing is, it takes ages for my computer to evaluate certain equations. It would be ...
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How to format problem in WolframAlpha? [closed]
Is there a way to enter this problem in WolframAlpha?:
the sum of the reciprocals of two consecutive integers is -9/20. Find the two integers.
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WolframAlpha queries unevaluated despite internet connectivity?
WolframAlpha is a built-in symbol in MMA8, yet expressions with WolframAlpha and the equal sign operator remains unevaluated ...
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financial data behind Wolfram|Alpha and Finance Platform
I need to price 23,000 securities from 1999 to 2007, and they are surprisingly hard to find on subscription-based services, like Bloomberg LP, ThomsonReuters or S&P CapitalIQ offerings. Probably ...
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Why wolframalpha.com can be more powerful than Mathematica sometimes? [closed]
I wanted to determine whether the infinite series of $u_n=(\sqrt{n+1}-\sqrt{n})^{\frac{1}{2}}\ln{\frac{n-1}{n+1}}$ converges.
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Plot multiple “functions” in WolframAlpha [closed]
I tried to multiple plot in WolframAlpha using this command from the Forum:
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