"If you're wearing six different kinds of health metrics and personal analytics tracking thingies, and they're measuring all kind of different things ... the question is, what do you do with it?"
The Wolfram Language will become publicly available in the next few weeks,Wolfram Research founder Stephen Wolfram promised in a recent keynote at SXSW.
In that keynote, he demonstrated a few of the Wolfram Language’s amazing powers: In response to nearly natural-language queries, it’s able to parse phrases and generate remarkably sophisticated responses. A few of the demonstration’s more outrageous examples, all accomplished with just one line of code (often via iterative, interactive modifications of that single line)....
Warning: big data nerd alert, but interesting to those trying to make more practical use of big data for all kinds of purposes.