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I use it for hobby tinkering, it's quite fun to play around with. Excellent documentation, best-in-class symbolic capabilities, great visualizations/charting, e
by latkin 3y ago
I use it for hobby tinkering, it's quite fun to play around with. Excellent documentation, best-in-class symbolic capabilities, great visualizations/charting, everything you need is in the box (no fussing with dependencies). And once you get the hang of it, you feel very crafty doing complex functional-style transformations with minimal code.
For example, my house experienced some flooding last year after exceptionally heavy rainfall. But how exceptional was it, really? I pulled out Mathematica and in a few minutes I had an interactive chart showing historical rainfall stats for my city over different time periods. The charting, interactivity, and weather APIs were all just built in.
- krackers 3y agoCan you post a code snippet for that plot, if you still happen to have it?
- latkin 3y agoI don't have that one handy right this minute, but I just remembered that I did a different weather exploration with Mathematica about a year ago. I had a hunch that Ironman triathlon was advertising their races as having cooler weather than they actually do. Turns out I was right -- here's my [slowtwitch post](https://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Triathlon_Forum_F1/Ironman's_%22avg_air_temp%22_forecasts_are_whack_--_here's_the_data_P7854855/ https://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/Slowtwitch_Forums_C1/Tria...), and the [associated code](https://gist.github.com/latkin/470a2f06056ee0a8e3f4da837af10741 https://gist.github.com/latkin/470a2f06056ee0a8e3f4da837af10...).