FYI. -tom johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM USA http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/02/launching-a-democratization-of-data-science/
*Launching a Democratization of Data Science February 9, 2012 It's a sad but true fact that most data that's generated or collected—even with considerable effort—never gets any kind of serious analysis. But in a sense that's not surprising. Because doing data science has always been hard. And even expert data scientists usually have to spend lots of time wrangling code and data to do any particular analysis. I myself have been using computers to work with data for more than a third of a century. And over that time my tools and methods have gradually evolved. But this week—with the release of Wolfram|Alpha Pro—something dramatic has happened, that will forever change the way I approach data. The key idea is automation. The concept in Wolfram|Alpha Pro is that I should just be able to take my data in whatever raw form it arrives, and throw it into Wolfram|Alpha Pro. And then Wolfram|Alpha Pro should automatically do a whole bunch of analysis, and then give me a well-organized report about my data. And if my data isn't too large, this should all happen in a few seconds.*
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