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by glaugh 14y ago
We still don't account for them (except in the context of ANOVA post hocs). The thinking is that (1) we're similar to other stats tools in that it's incumbent on the user to account for that, (2) a 'practical' version of accounting for mult
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by glaugh 14y ago
Agreed. Right now the best way to handle that is to filter your analysis in a way that accounts for confounding variables. So in the example you gave, you'd run the Desktop OS vs. Compensation analysis then filter for Country == USA only. T
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by glaugh 14y ago
Edit: This issue has been fixed. Original comment: Sorry, that's a presentation issue on our end. Non-negotiable is the highest value, and if you Relate one of the variables with that as a response option to any other variable, you'd see e
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by glaugh 14y ago
Yeah, we use 95% for all out stat testing. If you click the "Advanced" tab of any analysis you can see the actual p-value, too.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Awesome. Really appreciate that feedback. Thanks a bunch. Edit: Also, we do actually allow you to sort the descriptive by Count, alphabetical, or manually chosen. There should be a "Sort" button to the upper right of the table.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Is that because of misclicking, the order of the buttons, or that it just feels like "Describe" should be the way to get the result you're looking for? (Or something else?). Thanks for the feedback.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Yeah, in an ideal world we'd have found the real-world stats for that kind of information and weighted the responses appropriately. Though of course we'd still have selection bias questions of who chooses to answer the survey or not.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Hey, thanks for the feedback. #1 resonates a lot. If you upload your own data, then we make it really easy to share a few specific analyses (sort of like how I shared a few analyses via this link). But we don't currently have that ability t
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Analysis of Stack Overflow's Survey of 10K developers(statwing.com)
140 points by glaugh 14y ago|61 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
I can't believe the stock symbol "DATA" wasn't taken already.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Statwing | Front End Engineer Radically improving the UI for data analysis is the core challenge of our company. As our first hire and only front-end specialist, you'll drive the function and feel of our UI, creating entirely new ways of in
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by glaugh 14y ago
(Reposting this because the HN outage yesterday knocked it off the front page just as things were getting going. Original discussion page is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5359047 .)
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NFL Play-by-Play Data—Analyzed, Visualized, and Quizzified(blog.statwing.com)
12 points by glaugh 14y ago|1 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The simplicity vs. thoroughness tradeoff was tricky. To respond to that specific comment, a quarterback scramble was counted as a pass play for the purpose of that analysis. That's not clear from our post, and does
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NFL Play-by-Play Data—Analyzed, Visualized, and Quizzified(blog.statwing.com)
45 points by glaugh 14y ago|5 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
SF - full-time, Front End Engineer About Statwing: We love analyzing data. We love the feeling of getting an idea, exploring some hypotheses, and finding a surprising story in the data. And we love enabling others to have that feeling. That
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by glaugh 14y ago
I'm impressed, this will be super useful. I spend a decent amount of time looking around for datasets, and it's harder than I would have imagined. Finding out about Quandl is alone a pretty big victory.
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by glaugh 14y ago
Not saying this is a cure-all for everyone, but it's a good first thing to try: My dad was diagnosed with sleep apnea. He was tired during the day and got bad migraines. They recommended a fancy apparatus but he instead sewed a golf ball in
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Political Polling is Broken (And How Mushiness Can Fix It)(blog.statwing.com)
13 points by glaugh 14y ago|0 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
When I was in college I spent a summer going through Alaska's database (it was downloadable), cross referencing with a people search engine, and then mailing letters to people to tell them that they had missing money and how to claim it (an
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Front End Engineer at Statwing in San Francisco (YC S12)
1 points by glaugh 14y ago
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by glaugh 14y ago
If anything, predictions based on the innovator's dilemma were wrong: http://daringfireball.net/2012/07/iphone_disruption_five_yea... I think disruptive innovation is a very useful concept, but this just goes to show how hard it is to app
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The Screen Bowl: Mobile Apps Take On TV(blog.flurry.com)
3 points by glaugh 14y ago|0 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
For example: "I've got 100% of my wealth locked into one investment, my SurveyMonkey equity, and I'd like to have a more balanced portfolio, so I'll sell half, no matter how much I believe in this company." Seems pretty rational to me.
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by glaugh 14y ago
I've found Givewell to be incredibly analytical and thoughtful in their analysis of how to get the most bang for the nonprofit buck, and I always consult them before giving. I'd encourage everyone to visit GiveWell next time they have some
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America Goes to the Doctor(blog.statwing.com)
9 points by glaugh 14y ago|0 comments
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by glaugh 14y ago
Thanks for the question. The fact that income moves very tightly with vote for Romney means it's a strong correlation. Since one variable goes up while the other goes down, it's a negative correlation. You can have any combination of st
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by glaugh 14y ago
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any good heuristics for identifying when the ecological fallacy is or is not an issue. As you suggested, that implies that one should always consider it to be an issue if the individual level data isn't avail
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by glaugh 14y ago
Duly noted. Thanks for the feedback. edit: Deleted the ad at the end, replaced with a link to the front page.
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by glaugh 14y ago
OP here. Thoughts/questions/comments?

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