Statwing
Data
statistical analysis software
SHOW HN2012
135points
50comments
#143of 1,677 in 2012
Top 9%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
14 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 9 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Idea: 5 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstDesign: 4 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clear, fast, intuitive interface and visualizations
From 3 comments
The walkthrough took me through finding a correlation between voting preference and neuroticism. Great! But it's also worth noting that this dataset shows larger effect sizes at…
aphyr on HNI do a lot of stat. analysis and I was impressed with the clarity of the analyses. However, I ran through the Obama v. Romney tutorial and was surprised to see that the software…
recardona on HNMore notes: #3 I have to say, my first impression was that the tutorial was a little annoying, but it's actually done pretty slickily and it introduces features, such as the…
danso on HN
Polished design and tutorial
From 2 comments
More notes: #3 I have to say, my first impression was that the tutorial was a little annoying, but it's actually done pretty slickily and it introduces features, such as the…
danso on HN1. Great looking product. I clicked through a little bit and liked the general polish, but didn't have time to explore everything. 2. For people whose jobs involve statistical…
danso on HN
Objections
Averaging Likert-scale data is statistically questionable
From 2 comments
I do a lot of stat. analysis and I was impressed with the clarity of the analyses. However, I ran through the Obama v. Romney tutorial and was surprised to see that the software…
recardona on HNYou're right, they shouldn't be making that average. Specifically, Likert data is ordinal, meaning 14 is less than 15 and greater than 13, but the gap between 15 and 14 may be…
mgurlitz on HN
Lacks regression and multiple comparison correction
From 2 comments
Nice, well pointed out. Unfortunately, we don't have regressions yet. But just to make sure these findings were still valid, we tossed this data into a program that did to make…
glaugh on HNTotally valid. We do multiple comparison protection on ANOVA post hoc tests, but not across all analyses. Ultimately we'll need to address this. Hopefully doing so…
glaugh on HN
Hard to monetize for a consumer-grade stats tool
From 1 comment
Similar to what Swivel was trying to do. Great idea, nice execution, but really how will you monetize this? There is no real market for consumer grade "intuitive" statistical…
hokua on HN
Requests
Regression, including logistic regression
From 2 comments
The walkthrough took me through finding a correlation between voting preference and neuroticism. Great! But it's also worth noting that this dataset shows larger effect sizes at…
aphyr on HNI'd like to throw in another vote for prioritizing regressions and specifically adding logistic regressions to the mix. Thanks!
leeny on HN
Multiple comparison corrections across analyses
From 1 comment
I'm worried for how quickly you can do tests with this interface. I feel my fingers urging for hypothesis hunting---do you have multiple comparison corrections in place?
tel on HN
Realtime data feeds
From 2 comments
Are there any plans to add-in any realtime feeds? Like say weather data and the Dow jones close to see any correlations?
doleson on HN+1. I really like the intuitive interface and the speed with which I can conduct analysis. It would be great to have a library of feeds for each user that is automatically…
georgek on HN
Questions
Is there a solution for highly sensitive data?
From 1 comment
This is great. Do you have any solution for highly sensitive data?
anonDataUser on HN
What is the business model?
From 1 comment
This looks great and I look forward to running some analyses of the same test data between Statwing and Wolfram|Alpha Pro in a mini-bakeoff. EDIT: Can you talk about your…
kylemaxwell on HN
Alternatives named
Wolfram|Alpha
From 1 comment
I'm glad to see other people working on this problem. We (Wolfram|Alpha) are doing this too, starting out with the making the 'easy cases' nearly automatic. Here's a blog-post…
taliesinb on HN
R, SPSS, SAS, Matlab, Excel
From 4 comments
Very cool. Why should I use this instead of R/gnuplot?
duaneb on HN1. Great looking product. I clicked through a little bit and liked the general polish, but didn't have time to explore everything. 2. For people whose jobs involve statistical…
danso on HNSimilar to what Swivel was trying to do. Great idea, nice execution, but really how will you monetize this? There is no real market for consumer grade "intuitive" statistical…
hokua on HNI can do everything they can do in matlab with your data in less time and with less hassle. my only price is a xmen comic book and a 6 pack of coke.
hashpipers234 on HN