just awful – Wolfram Statistics Course Assistant Review

Like most Wolfram products this app is very pretty but totally useless. It doesn't even work if you aren't online. This is just a thin interface to their Alpha site. Need to calculate a few random integers? Want to plot a few points on a bar graph or histogram? Need to find the standard deviation or variance of a few numbers? Do you want to know the average of some numbers? Do you want to generate a random number? This app will do all that after it submits your request online followed by a long delay before giving you an answer that you could have just as easily and more quickly computed with a pencil and paper. Sometimes It would time-out just waiting for the average of a numbers. If you need assistance in your statistics course to calculate the average of some numbers or to plot a few points as a bar chart then you you need a lot more help than this app can offer. Do you really need a $5 stats assistant to calculate the standard deviation of a handful of numbers? Sadly, you would still be disappointed with this assistant. This app won't teach you statistics. This isn't a statistics reference that you can use to review topics. This won't help you understand statistical methods. This isn't a stats oriented calculator that you can use to crunch numbers... I don't know what this is good for. Wolfram is turning into a huge disappointment with these apps that just repackage the web interface to their Alpha engine. If you want to be disappointed in AI then just go to their web site to use their Alpha engine. It's free and just as useless. If they are trying to build familiarity and loyalty for their tools then they aren't going to achieve that by charging $5 for the same tool under different names.
Review by NoahSpurrier on Wolfram Statistics Course Assistant.