{"id":256,"date":"2011-10-06T18:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=256"},"modified":"2023-09-13T15:41:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T15:41:15","slug":"planes-over-swarthmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Planes Over Swarthmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-423\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/av8pix\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-423 \" title=\"NetJet\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5419958750_887937c289_b-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"NetJet\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5419958750_887937c289_b-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5419958750_887937c289_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by AV8PIX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Institutional research offices are typically known as &#8220;clearinghouses&#8221; for information on their campuses. \u00a0Well, this morning I am proud to say that with\u00a0<a title=\"WolframAlpha\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WolframAlpha&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0help, we are able to start tracking yet another important higher ed metric: \u00a0planes overhead.<\/p>\n<p>If you enter &#8220;planes overhead&#8221; into the WolframAlpha search box, you will see a listing of planes flying over the location of your IP address.<\/p>\n<p>Searching from my office on campus, I can see 5 planes flying over Swarthmore right now, including a NetJets flight at 15,000 feet. \u00a0Maybe Roger Federer asked his pilot if he could take a closer look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jakebeckman.com\/adirondak_chair_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adirondack chair<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about this feature on\u00a0<a title=\"Official Tumblr of WolframAlpha\" href=\"http:\/\/wolframalpha.tumblr.com\/post\/10689343309\/what-planes-are-overhead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WolframAlpha&#8217;s Tumblr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Institutional research offices are typically known as &#8220;clearinghouses&#8221; for information on their campuses. \u00a0Well, this morning I am proud to say that with\u00a0WolframAlpha&#8217;s\u00a0help, we are able to start tracking yet another important higher ed metric: \u00a0planes overhead. If you enter &#8220;planes overhead&#8221; into the WolframAlpha search box, you will see a listing of planes flying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/?p=256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Planes Over Swarthmore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/institutional-research\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}