And you were envious of your colleague who does very clever things with a Bloomberg.
This is vastly more powerful: the latest version of Stephen Wolfram’s
has the ability to do all manner of really clever charting, where you can adjust
variables in real time and see the results in full-color glory.
Wolfram’s website has demonstrations in business,
and economics
– and all of them have little animated previews of what’s possible using
the software. Says my friend Stefan
Geens, who tipped me off to this: "droolworthy stuff for econ geeks".