Institutional research offices are typically known as “clearinghouses” for information on their campuses. Well, this morning I am proud to say that with WolframAlpha’s help, we are able to start tracking yet another important higher ed metric: planes overhead.
If you enter “planes overhead” into the WolframAlpha search box, you will see a listing of planes flying over the location of your IP address.
Searching from my office on campus, I can see 5 planes flying over Swarthmore right now, including a NetJets flight at 15,000 feet. Maybe Roger Federer asked his pilot if he could take a closer look at the Adirondack chair!
You can read more about this feature on WolframAlpha’s Tumblr.