Wolfram Alpha Shows the World Some Facebook Love
September 11, 2012
An exciting reveal from Wolfram Alpha is the release of the capability for anyone to do personal analytics with their Facebook data. Stephen Wolfram, creator of Wolfram Alpha, posted “Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook” on his blog recently, and tells us about the multiple possibilities of this data. The first round of capabilities lets users search and analyze their own Facebook history as well as their network of friends.
Wolfram asserts in the blog post:
“And today I’m excited to announce that we’ve developed a first round of capabilities in Wolfram|Alpha to let anyone do personal analytics with Facebook data. Wolfram|Alpha knows about all kinds of knowledge domains; now it can know about you, and apply its powers of analysis to give you all sorts of personal analytics. And this is just the beginning; over the months to come, particularly as we see about how people use this, we’ll be adding more and more capabilities.”
This free service generates a report that analyzes everything from a user’s check-ins and photos to responses to posts. Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook also allows you to share the data you gather on, you guessed it, Facebook. This extensive and impressive showing of love to Facebook is apparently just the beginning from Wolfram Alpha, which plans to add more features and capabilities as feedback begins to roll in.
Andrea Hayden, September 11, 2012
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