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Continuing with my Wolfram Mathematica Trial Experience... I watched and went through some more Mathematica introduction videos, read lots of Mathematica documentation and also going through the Wolfram Lab Online again a few times. There are some major learning curves and Mathematica is a lot different from normal programming language. Sometimes there is a lot of interesting "shortcuts", say like: FindFaces[] , WordCloud[] . Sometimes I got a little confused on how one can do iterations. Normally FOR LOOP concept is introduced early, but in Wolfram, because everything is EXPRESSIONS and ENTITY (like OBJECTS), sometimes it gets quite quirky. Mind you I am still in the first impression and having to look at many tutorials. Lots of NEAT EXAMPLES from documentation, but sometimes I got lost. I found Wolfram to be really awesome with LIST and generating list. It's almost too easy when it works visually. I cannot explain them with my own words yet, but there are ...

My personal interest in Wolfram from the start is because of Wolfram's BIG KNOWLEDGE BASE. And also the way Wolfram could "filter" and "re-present" those data back to users in an interactive and rich kind of way. I supposed it would be a really good personal case study and research for DATA VISUALIZATION . If you are interested in Data Science, you should also check thing like R Programming. Or maybe look up some ways Python can process data. SomethingData[] Now, we know that Wolfram knows A LOT. However to access those knowledge, we need some kind of understanding about the way Wolfram store the data. We can tell Wolfram to QUERY data using Wolfram Language SYMBOL, which I believe it will give you ENTITY, and further more the PROPERTIES of ENTITY. For example: 1) Supposed we want to know more about our PLANET: Earth . Wolfram recognize this "Earth" as a String. What if we want to actually find out more about ENTITY called EARTH? 2) We cou...