Brief Overview of Wolfram Language
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|Wolfram Language Conventions
Wolfram Language Has Uniform Conventions for All Commands
Generally, the commands in Wolfram Language have the same overall conventions and formatting. So once you learn a few general conventions, you can easily use any of the thousands of commands that are in the language. Here are a few conventions to get us started:
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Commands in Wolfram Language are capitalized and spelled out.
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Commands use square brackets to surround the input (or expression).
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Strings of text are surrounded by quotes.
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A dataset or list is surrounded by curly brackets.
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Anything can be stored with a symbol name (large dataset, image, etc.) for easy reference later.
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This video is a nice way to look over someone’s shoulder as they are entering commands into Wolfram Language.
Additional Tutorials and Sample Data Analysis
Additional Tutorials and Sample Data Analysis
The examples from this Wolfram U course are based on five chapters of the Creative Data Analytics: Computational Recipes to Gain Insights into Businesses eBook. The full eBook contains 16 chapters with a wider scope of data analysis examples. Each chapter also includes embedded mouse-driven apps to experiment with the computation prior to learning any Wolfram Language code. This encourages the reader to think creatively about data analysis to avoid the tunnel vision that sometimes accompanies writing calculations or code.