Soystats

Soystats is a "command-line" style interactive statistics tool. Really, it's just a JavaScript prompt with a bunch of prewritten stats and mathy functions. But, that makes it pretty useful, to me at least, and hopefully to you as well.

• Application

• Documentation

• Source code at Google Code

You can do all sorts of things with Soystats, ranging from simple arithmetic to linear regressions to dynamically defining your own functions and expanding the platform. Check out the cool Soystats Tutorial for some tips on getting started!

Known Issues (v0.1):

• • Safari doesn't seem to properly load all the JavaScript modules and thus doesn't find certain functions (including rep() and seq(), both of which are then used within other functions). What can I say, I tested in Firefox - this will be fixed for the next version.

Roadmap (besides general refinements/bugfixes):

• • v0.2 - Data object (with meta-information, e.g. variable names), ability to load data from files over the web (possibly from swivel.com, elsewhere)

  • v0.3 - Expand the lm() function to estimate errors, add lineplot function

  • v0.4 - Integration with AppEngine for data, basic Python functionality

  • v0.5 - Further integration with Python/server-side for more sophisticated functionality/statistical models

  • v0.6 - R plugin for integration with desktop software

  • v0.7 - Ability to access databases (SQL), potentially pull data from sources such as Google spreadsheets as well

  • v0.8 - More plot functionality, better output (PDFs)/session saving

  • v0.9 - Expand programmability: write methods to make it easier for users to make and save their own functions

  • v1.0 - 'GUI' of some sort (e.g. menu driven interface for functions)