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[WSG25] Exploring and Getting Started with Wolfram Language

Posted 2 months ago

A Wolfram U daily study group on "Exploring and Getting Started with Wolfram Language" begins on April 28, 2025. The study group will run for five days through May 2nd, and each day will run from 11AM to noon CDT.

Learn to use Mathematica and the programming language at its core—Wolfram Language. This Study Group starts by using Wolfram Notebook Assistant to help you explore computational questions and build familiarity with the syntax and core areas of the language. You'll also learn about visualizing data and explore different examples of what you can do in Wolfram Notebooks.

Each session includes lessons exploring the relevant concepts, polling the group to review key concepts, introducing practice problems and answering questions. Sessions run daily, Monday through Friday. A program completion certificate is earned by attending the daily sessions and passing the quiz.

REGISTER HERE.

I look forward to seeing you there!

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POSTED BY: Arben Kalziqi
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Posted 20 days ago

Hi! Arben I have completed the quiz but I can't find any prompts to download my completion certificate. Any help?

POSTED BY: Al Amin Miah

Hello, happy to hear you've passed the quiz. We will be collecting the passing attendee emails and sending out the certificates next week. Please let us know if you do not receive your certificate.

Have a great weekend!

Wolfram U Team

POSTED BY: Cassidy Hinkle
Posted 27 days ago

Hi Arben,

Thanks for showing the Cloud option. That was super useful! I got two visualizations up there already. Here's one:

https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/alayontf/Trajectories%20with%20Phase%20Portrait

I can't get much credit for the code. My other assistant helped.

Some questions regarding the Cloud Deployment:

1) Is there a limit to the number of pages I can publish? It looks like each visualization is one page.

2) How much space do these Cloud Objects take? I can see the number of pages and credits (not sure what the credits are for either) on my Dashboard, but couldn't find a place to find the space taken.

3) I received an email about my account recently which mentioned "Temporary cloud deployments, allowing you to publish Wolfram Notebooks in the cloud and deploy APIs for up to 60 days." Does that include these objects as well? If so, that won't cover the whole semester unfortunately.

I'm also going to come back to the colorblind friendly colormap question. I think it's also called perceptually uniform, or maybe that's another extra condition. I used twilight in my Python codes for complex visualizations in activities before. My other assistant said that there are no cyclic perceptually uniform colormaps in Mathematica. Is that correct? It said I can import the Python colormaps into Mathematica, but I'm not sure how easy it would be. If it doesn't require master level Mathematica expertise, I can figure it out by the next time I teach complex (not soon).

Thanks so much for any information and help!

Note: Sorry for the long and late post. I'm putting all these questions in one post late at night since the system didn't let me post for 24 hours.

POSTED BY: Feryal Alayont

No problem about the long comment, of course :). Nice little demo, too!

1) There is, but it's not exactly about the number of pages as much as it is about the total size of all of your published materials. For the free account, that's 200MB, which is enough to publish quite a bit. An important note: you're not at all limited to publishing one demonstration or visualization per page. What we're seeing at the link you posted is in fact a Cloud Notebook with just one output in it—your Manipulate. A published Cloud Notebook can have any number of things, like this. Please also note from the collapsed input cells in this example—for a sufficiently efficient Manipulate, you can set ContinuousAction->True to make it more "interactive" in the cloud (like this).

2) You can see it on your Cloud account page by navigating to (say) your recent files here. The continuous demo I linked just above is 4.4kB, so you could store about fifty thousand of them on a free/basic account.

3) On any paid Cloud account, any deployments last in perpetuity. On a free one, they last for 60 days from time of upload—and I do think that applies to your uploads of these sorts of demos. I understand that this might be a bit annoying, but the good news is... you can simply redeploy to the same URL and then the 60-day timer should start again!

As for the colorblind issue, it's something I admittedly ought to think about more so that my talks are accessible as possible. You can see all of the "named" color schemes at the Color Schemes guide, and I do think that it's true that none of these is both perceptually uniform and cyclic. (The Complex plotting functions do have special cyclic color functions available though; you can check them out in the ColorFunction section of their respective Options sections of their documentation.)

That said... I believe (off the top of my head) that those are cyclic because they use Hue, which... is cyclic, but is maybe not perceptually uniform? If you have an example of such a color map that I could look at, that might help (and maybe I could make it with Blend). In the meantime, maybe check out some more demonstrations about Hue here.

POSTED BY: Arben Kalziqi
Posted 1 month ago

Hi Arben,

I missed the end of Tuesday's recording since I had to hop on another meeting. I just watched it and noticed that you discussed how to make visualizations with sliders. Can I make a visualization and post it somewhere for my students to play with it? The code worked on Wolfram Alpha, but it did not activate the slider. My students technically have free Mathematica as well, but it's not a language they'd be familiar with. If I can do something like Desmos/GeoGebra applets for them, it would work great and would not require downloading or working with the commands directly.

Another question related to Tuesday's topic is about the parts in lists and MatrixForm. I'm a bit confused about how those work. If I have an odd number layers, such as a 4x3x2 list, MatrixForm turns it into a 4x3 matrix of size 2 vectors, and not a row of four 3x2 matrices. I experimented with a five layer list (4x3x2x2x3) and that also turned into a 4x3 matrix of 2x2 matrix of size 3 vectors. It looks like the last layer always becomes the innermost vector size in the matrices if we have odd number layers. Is that the default? Can that be changed?

Relatedly, it looks like there are no parts to the MatrixForm version of a list. If I look at part 1 of a list, I get the first term. But once I convert it to a MatrixForm, then part 1 gives the whole thing, which means the MatrixForm is a single part type. I don't get the first entry in the first row. In other words, the MatrixForm doesn't think of its entries as parts. I don't have access to Mathematica Notebook Assistant, but another assistant said it's because the MatrixForm is only for displaying and does not convert the list to a matrix. Is that correct?

Thanks for any information!

Feryal

POSTED BY: Feryal Alayont

Hi Feryal! These are great questions—I'll address them live tomorrow, if you don't mind.

POSTED BY: Arben Kalziqi

Hi,

Could you ask BigMarker to permit downloads of the study group recordings, assuming that functionality exists in BigMarker? It's a matter of convenience (and user-friendliness) since it's possible to record anything that appears in a GUI desktop using an external program.

Thanks.

Hi Vladimir—I'll ask Roberto if BM allows this!

EDIT: BigMarker does not currently support this, but we did request the feature some time in the past.

POSTED BY: Arben Kalziqi

Monday's session in our Exploring and Getting Started with Wolfram Language Daily Study Group will feature a guided tour of the new Wolfram Notebook Assistant with @Arben Kalziqi. He'll show how to get help writing code, running calculations and getting answers to questions that include real-world data from the Wolfram Knowledgebase, all from a chat-based assistant. Looking forward to it!

Daily Study Group: Sign up now!

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