I certainly can't claim to have been the first to have the idea behind Theoryville. What's now StatCrunch began as a project created by a stats professor in the

I certainly can't claim to have been the first to have the idea behind Theoryville. What's now StatCrunch began as a project created by a stats professor in the ye olde mid-1990s. So the dream of moving data analysis and visualization onto the web is about as old as the consumer web. It's been kind of a graveyard for startups, though. Look at Swivel, which TechCrunch called "a YouTube for data" way back in '06, built some fairly impressive tech... and shut down completely a few months ago. Also, there was a stats PhD student who posted a "web-based SPSS" demo on HN shortly after I applied that was, from a technical standpoint, more impressive than the demo my team hacked together. YC has since funded a more specialized web-based data analysis startup, aimed specifically at those running clinical drug trials: http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/comprehend-systems/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/27/comprehend-systems/ Anyway. I'm not really interested in moving to Toronto (though I am a fan of Scott Pilgrim...), but I wish you luck and look forward to beta-testing your service.