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Thanks, really appreciate #1. Agreed that quite often the hardest part is getting the data together (particularly on the web). But from our perspective, it's s

by glaugh 14y ago

Thanks, really appreciate #1. Agreed that quite often the hardest part is getting the data together (particularly on the web). But from our perspective, it's still true that conducting the actual analysis and visualizing the data should be a lot easier than it is. And that's particularly true if you're in our initial audience, the roughly 50% of SPSS/R/Minitab/etc. users who never use anything past the basic functionality of those programs. I guess a simpler answer is that we think there's a need because this is a product that I badly wanted when I was an analyst/consultant, splitting time between Excel and the basic functionality of SPSS. edit: Also, and this isn't very helpful, but we talk to a ton of people about their data analysis needs, and we hear a good chunk of them talk a lot about the pain of using highly technical solutions for relatively simple problems like analyzing a survey.

danso 14y ago
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 multiple variable analysis, that I probably would not have stumbled upon in the first place. Well done. #4 That's my SOPA project you're referencing! :) https://www.statwing.com/demos/sopa https://www.statwing.com/demos/sopa (though if you can edit the copy, credit should also go to the Center for Responsive Politics, from which the campaign finance data was collected)
- glaugh 14y ago
  Nice! It's a great dataset, really fun, and we're big fans of ProPublica. We'll definitely edit the copy. I'll ping you unicast to make sure we did it right. Yay! edit: Also, thanks for the feedback on the tour. Our goal is to make the interface so intuitive that it shouldn't require the tour to know what to do. We've got some updates in mind that should get us much closer to that goal.

by glaugh 14y ago

danso 14y ago

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 multiple variable analysis, that I probably would not have stumbled upon in the first place. Well done. #4 That's my SOPA project you're referencing! :) https://www.statwing.com/demos/sopa https://www.statwing.com/demos/sopa (though if you can edit the copy, credit should also go to the Center for Responsive Politics, from which the campaign finance data was collected)

glaugh 14y ago
Nice! It's a great dataset, really fun, and we're big fans of ProPublica. We'll definitely edit the copy. I'll ping you unicast to make sure we did it right. Yay! edit: Also, thanks for the feedback on the tour. Our goal is to make the interface so intuitive that it shouldn't require the tour to know what to do. We've got some updates in mind that should get us much closer to that goal.