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Wolfram Alpha for Travel Research and Planning

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Josh started this discussion 15 years 5 months ago

Interesting "computational knowledge engine" called Wolfram|Alpha:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Examples:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/

Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

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Josh Hostels

12 years

I don't know if I mentioned it before, but Wolfram Alpha can also be used for travel research.

Examples:

Converting the time to other time zones
Calculating visa dates (be sure to check whether it's inclusive of the last day or not -- I just use it for rough calculations)
Finding distances
Converting distances, measurements, and temperatures

There are also toolbars for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.

Here are some more examples of what the site can do:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/

EDIT: I just found this page with more examples about how to use Wolfram Alpha for travel.

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