August 23, 2012

Stat-related startups

At Simply Statistics, a set of stat/data related startups.

One that looks interesting for teaching and for data journalism purposes is Statwing, which is building a web-based pointy-clicky data analysis system, aiming to have good graphics and good text descriptions of the results.  This is the sort of project where the details will matter a lot — poking around at their demo there were a few things I was slightly unhappy about, but nothing devastatingly bad, so there is potential.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »