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Friday, 16th April 2010

New Data Loaded into Wolfram|Alpha: Historical Tax Statistics (U.S.)

It was less than 24 hours ago when U.S. Taxes or tax extensions had to be filed with the Internal Revenue Service. It's a television "evergreen" (something that happens every year) that tv stations around the country are showing last minute filers (who still use paper forms) standing in line at the post office making sure their documents are postmarked before Midnight. Because of online filing it's not like it used to be but there are still who like to use paper and wait to the last minute or seconds.

Yes, it was tax day in America and the team at Wolfram|Alpha in Champaign-Urbana, IL was likely putting the finishing touches on a new dataset of historical U.S. tax statistics that was loading or had been loaded into "Alpha."

Today, on the Wolfram|Alpha Blog C. Allan Joyce introduces what's new and explains how to use it. It's one detailed blog post since a sizable amount of data is available.

The basic input to trigger tax statistics is AGI (adjusted gross income) and a number (representing dollars)

Here's an example of the data that appears on a results page when agi 100,000 You don't need a dollar sign) is placed in the search box.

Again, the blog post contains what appears to be all the data you need to get a basic understanding of what's available short of hiring a C.P.A. or finance professor. Make sure to give it a read. Almost forgot, the blog post clearly states that all of this data comes from the IRS.

New data added into Wolfram|Alpha continues at a good rate. The more the better.

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