I came across this interesting blog in the Freakonomics Blog : “A YouTube for Data”
which is quite interesting. Given the fact that I am taking Statistics this quarter and the core topics such as Linear regression, Normal distribution etc is still fresh in my memory, I though this idea of developing a site where anybody could upload their data and generate graphs seemed very impressive. Is there use for such data ? I think so. I can track the page views of my blogs and upload it to swivel and put a small piece of JS on my site that can show the number of page views. Would I want to do that ? Not unless I have a huge readership base. If it's just me my firend and my dog reading :) then I wouldn't want to do it. But the point is there is some need for such representation of data .
Now this opens up another question. Now I have a way to present the data but how do I get the data in the first place ? Hmm, May be I should think of a swivel++.
which is quite interesting. Given the fact that I am taking Statistics this quarter and the core topics such as Linear regression, Normal distribution etc is still fresh in my memory, I though this idea of developing a site where anybody could upload their data and generate graphs seemed very impressive. Is there use for such data ? I think so. I can track the page views of my blogs and upload it to swivel and put a small piece of JS on my site that can show the number of page views. Would I want to do that ? Not unless I have a huge readership base. If it's just me my firend and my dog reading :) then I wouldn't want to do it. But the point is there is some need for such representation of data .
Now this opens up another question. Now I have a way to present the data but how do I get the data in the first place ? Hmm, May be I should think of a swivel++.
2 comments:
Dude,
what does linear regression have to do with this. looks like you were not paying attention in class when the professor was teaching regression
Anyway..your blog is a piece of crap...you should stop writing it
alright..alright.. I saw you paying more attention in the class... The point is how many times have you had data that was worth mining and didn't have enough tools or expertise to do so...Yeah! I know you'll bring up excel but can you put a graph that excel generates on a web site ?
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