Wolfram Media Presentation 2017

Overview:

In this talk, we’ll be discussing three main issues, Wolfram Media Books, Wolfram Media Publishing, and Wolfram Language/Mathematica desktop publishing tricks.

What is Wolfram Media and What are we Working On?

Wolfram Media’s purpose is to promote the use of the Wolfram Language. We publish Stephen’s books, and books by authors within the company, and by next year will have added a variety of external authors to our publication list.

The more you can bring to Wolfram Media, the more we can give back

What’s Still Coming from SW

A series of epubs, published through Ingram Spark

EIWL in Korean, in Japanese, Spanish, and Indonesian

External Books in Production

Programming the Raspberry Pi with the Wolfram Language

A project based book by Donald Norris

Print, epub, online

A Numerical Approach to Real Algebraic Curves with the Wolfram Language

A how-to for curve coding in the Wolfram Language

Epub, online

The Science of Casino Blackjack

Richard Werthamer, Wolfram Cloud

A Sample of Projects in Development

Alan Calvitti Functional Data Analysis: Practical Methods for Science Workflows

Statistician at VA San Diego Healthcare System

Needs evaluation by a Wolfram Statistician

Presented at WTC 2015, 2016

Used Mathematica to run analyses on thousands of VA patient data

Not ready to run a full demonstration yet, but files exist here

Wolfram Community Book

I created the following outline based on number of hits (and quality of content)

Hard Science
1.  Simulating a Global Ebola Outbreak by Marco Thiel 66K views
2. Reading High Resolution Weather Data from Netatmo by Marco Thiel 16K views
3. Plotting Electronic Orbitals with Wolfram Language by Jason Biggs 13K views (This could use some work, but it was popular)
4. GPS Mountainbike Analysis by Sander Huisman 8K views
Social Science
5. How Many Animals Can One Find in a Random Image? By Michael Trott 15K views
6. Find your Species Name on Darwin’s Birthday! by Jofre Espigule 10K views
7. Cops and Robbers (and Zombies and Humans) by Brian Weinstein 9K views.  This one has a really neat graphic and code, but is not written as a demonstration.
8. Analytics of Republican Debate and Network Percolation by Vitaliy and Alan Joyce 9K views
Graphics and Design
9. How to Lego-fy Your Plots and 3D Models... by Sander Huisman
Word Play
10.  Wolfram Language for Motivational Words by Rodrigo Murta 19K views
11. Joke Generator by Jesse Freidman 11K views.  Jesse is 15 years old. 11K views
12. Analyzing a Dataset of Game Releases by Rob Lockhart 8 K views

Vitaliy has been too busy to create a “TOC” of his own.

Vitaliy believes this will be a lot of work, and will need peer review.

Specific topic book

Marco Thiel - A Deployed Projects Cookbook with the Wolfram Language

SW suggestion based on past community posts.

Says he has lots of unpublished material

Interested in doing a forensic math book with Vitaliy

Doing an event with WRAL next month, something may come out of

Monica Linden - Introduction to Computational Thinking

What is computational thinking?

What is computing?
B.	What is it good for? 
C.	History
D.	Computational X
E.	Future

The computational essay

Data
Must be digital

A.	Types of data
	1. Numbers
	2. Images
	3. Sounds
	4. Text
	5. Video
	6. Geography
	7. Dates/Times 
	8. Networks
	9.Digital sensor input
B.	Where to get data
C.	Sources of bias in data

Looking at the data
A.	Indexing
B.	Range
C.	Random

Counting--Questions answered by counting
A.	How to count
	1. Discrete data 
	2. Continuous data
B.	Visualizations
	1. Bar charts 
		a. Histograms
	2. Pie charts

Grouping--Ordering

Comparing groups

Correlations

Making predictions--Models
A.	Simulations
B.	Machine Learning

Karen Yokely - Chemistry, Mathematics of Disease

Published in 2017: Exploring Calculus: Labs and Projects with Mathematica

Approached me about writing a Chemistry book

Has not yet given me a formal proposal

Anton Antonov Mathematica for Chemists and Chemical Engineers

Paul Abbott - More Advanced Wolfram Language Book

Consultant at Accendo Data LLC

Book Deal with Wiley ended

Some pdfs and notebooks on dropbox

Open Chapter 11 and also Wiley Book Proposal

How we are Publishing

In print, color and black and white

In Fixed-layout epub format, for Kindle and iPad

Direct to consumer notebook sales through the Wolfram Store

Online Elementary Intro Style

How we Sell Books

Ingram

Ingram Spark, Lightning Source

Baker & Taylor

Amazon

Kindle Direct, and AmazonAdvantage

Wolfram Store

Submitting Your Book to Wolfram Media

Our Process

Discussion with me

Submission

Technical Review

Editorial Review

Scientific Review

Production

Two sets of notebooks (Source and Print Source)

To fit our very precise, stepwise format, we will be breaking the notebook’s code up.

Best Chapters

Final Review

Sequential Chapter Production

Promotion

Social Media, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook

Wolfram Mailing lists

Ingram promotions

Industry specific

Conferences, MakerFaires, University sales, etc.

Sales

Product Updates

How to Submit

CV, Proposal, TOC, Two Chapter notebooks (We do not accept LATEX)

WM submission/acceptance is a long process, we are very demanding of our authors for code quality, brevity of text, format

What we are looking for

Books that teach code for specific disciplines.

Focus on teaching--WITHIN a discipline

Using the WL to MAKE

Using the WL for DataScience

Wolfram Book Tools Styles specifications--SHOW DAYTON BOOK

Use Code Caption

Short “bites” of text

Break up inputs and outputs

Consider using special formatting features like More to Explore, Tech Notes, etc.

Wolfram Book Tools Quick Demo

No conversion between styles.

Promoting the use of Notebooks in Publication

Working with other Publishers

If you have formatting questions or difficulties from your publisher come talk to me

If you are using images, trademarked material, write to permissions@wolfram.com

If your negotiations with your current publisher fell through, we can assist you with finding another

Typesetting tricks

Getting pdfs to print well, and to adhere to journal print specifications

Setting page size, magnification, print to/save as pdf, references

Jay’s Notebook Palette

Getting visualizations to display properly

11.2 not printing to pdf

Using the Options Inspector

Hyphens, Cell Margins, Page Width, Crop  Marks, Image Alignment, Fontstyles

Hyphens

Fonts

Image Alignment

Please email jeremys@wolfram with your list of typesetting questions, and any tricks you use, palettes you’ve developed

LATEX Conversion

Importing your notebooks to LaTeX

http : // reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/format/TeX.html

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ConversionRules.html

Wolfram created stylesheets for popular publishers (Springer, CUP)