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you do have to pay taxes on the kickstarted money though. just a heads up, you will def want to pay the irs so you don't go to jail.
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Hi Ian, This is a great idea. There are many business uses for Statpedia and it will be a huge success. I think you would definitely reach your original $300k funding target if you made a funding video featuring Angus 'Statto' Loughran.  Statto is the UK's foremost expert on statistics, and would add instant credibility to the project. Investors would come flocking. Hiring Statto would add a small amount to your initial expenditure, but, as a businessman, I am sure you are familiar with the need to 'speculate to accumulate'. N.B. he may look a little older now.
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ian please rename your site scatpedia because it and you are literal poo poo, thanks in advance and goddess bless
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Null Pointer posted:Hi Ian, it's me again.  can I please have your carepost?I finalize the financial decisions. PM does tons of stuff. HR, Organization, Priorities, design, fine tuning specifications. He is making sure everything is flowing smoothly. The PM has a ton of experience running web projects. He is the one taking the heat when something goes wrong. Without him, we would not be looking at what statpedia is today. Structure to the organization allows for everything to run more smoothly. I started out working with just volunteers, and things get half completed with them coming and going spending their time how they please. It is inefficient on time, and we have things that need to get done. We are all technical, and I have business experience. Nothing is perfect out there, and we can all get better at everything we do. I think our team is legit, and we will be successful. I work from home, not an office. Having an office where everyone can be working on the project together is a good thing I believe. It forms bonds, it allows for others to easily help on things, it creates an atmosphere focused on statpedia. I am not commenting any more on my budget. If you disagree, that is fine. It is not like I am paying myself. I just want to make everyone happy working on statpedia. If they want an office, then I am going to try to get them an office if I can. Ian McLean fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Sep 17, 2012 |
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Sep 17, 2012 23:28
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Ric posted:Hi Ian, I'll look into this guy for sure. Thanks.
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Sep 17, 2012 23:29
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do you have the requisite cognitive dissonance prepped?
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Sep 17, 2012 23:42
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Ric posted:Hi Ian, lol
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New Kickstarter for Statpedia is live: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1630905008/statpedia
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as a former academian, I can say with confidence your only bet for use in this is to be able to be compatible with the quantitative research tools that are used to seriously analyze this stuff hope you can sell your gravytrain to SPSS before it derails, cuz your "pubbies wanna use stats" dream is p. lol
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does this fully integrate oob (out of the box) with Big Data?
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Sep 18, 2012 00:16
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alsoquote:PLEDGE $10,000 OR MORE
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Sep 18, 2012 00:23
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i feel kind of bad for Ian because I don't think this is going to end up well Ian your best bet is to kill you are self I'm afraid
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:as a former academian, I can say with confidence your only bet for use in this is to be able to be compatible with the quantitative research tools that are used to seriously analyze this stuff Do you have some suggestions for some various programs besides SPSS? I want the best research tools ever.
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Sep 18, 2012 00:31
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look you had a good run but it's time to "throw in the towel" let's be honest
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hhaaaaaa i'm not doing your work for you bro you been chuggin' along this far and you hadn't thought to look into that?
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Ian should perhaps help stats out as a whole by becoming another stat himself. another unemployed junkie who ended his own life because he had nothing to live for.
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Sep 18, 2012 00:38
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Make a crude web based interface to R and charge $100 / month to use.
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:hhaaaaaa i'm not doing your work for you bro dude... there are tons of analytic tools. The list is endless. I am just always open to what people say.
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raruler posted:Make a crude web based interface to R and charge $100 / month to use. There is already stuff like this: http://lavica.fesb.hr/octave/octave-on-line_en.php I am not going to charge money. Forget it.
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i just realized we're getting the $10000 investor package right here, right now
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wolfram alpha is nothing, any 15 year old who knows wget and a bit of php could make the same. dont let the haters get to you ian
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ok this thread is getting legitimately depressing now
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unixbeard posted:wolfram alpha is nothing, any 15 year old who knows wget and a bit of php could make the same. dont let the haters get to you ian just the thought of making a computer algebra system much less the rest of it makes me want to vomit
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Sagebrush posted:and that's literally all. once the money is in your account you can do whatever the gently caress you want and short of a civil suit (which would probably get thrown out since the tos says no guarantees) you're golden a TOS doesn't prevent you from going after the person who took your money for fraud.
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no, but i am pretty sure that most courts would throw out a criminal fraud charge. first off the money was donated in a legally vague situation -- it's not like you have to register as a nonprofit or w/e to be on kickstarter, and in fact i would say it's actually most similar to micro-venture-cap or something, where you absolutely have no guarantee of return on investment. but more importantly, getting money from people to do something and then failing at it isn't a crime unless you intended to from the beginning (so don't post your plans). kickstarter funders aren't shareholders either so you aren't financially obligated to them. seriously, i think the worst that could happen is they try to bring a class action suit against you but even with the lowered burden of proof i think it'd be tricky to find a court that would side with the bunch of angry anime goons over the ~tragic american entrepreneur~
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id like to see a chart of my data. oh nice but could you put it to the left there? a little more? more? just a bit more? thats it, thanks
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Sep 18, 2012 02:36
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ian listen to me very carefully you only get one shot at this. you need to find the biggest set of data in the house and start something with it. you might not like how it ends, but for the rest of the time no one else will be giving you trouble
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i like big datasets and i cannot lie you other brothers can't deny that when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a cumulative density function in your face i get sprung
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Proteus4994 posted:i like big datasets and i cannot lie
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Fanged Lawn Wormy posted:as a former academian, I can say with confidence your only bet for use in this is to be able to be compatible with the quantitative research tools that are used to seriously analyze this stuff lol spss r, sas, or gtfo
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Proteus4994 posted:i like big datasets and i cannot lie
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unixbeard posted:ian listen to me very carefully you only get one shot at this. you need to find the biggest set of data in the house and start something with it. you might not like how it ends, but for the rest of the time no one else will be giving you trouble It is a good thing my hosting plan comes with "Unlimited GB's of Space*" !!!! I don't think they know whats coming with statpedia. Who put that photo up of me... ridiculous. And what is with all these cats! Ian McLean fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Sep 18, 2012 |
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Trig Discipline posted:lol spss
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Trig Discipline posted:lol spss k
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fun fact: one of the dudes behind spss is the main dude behind revolution analytics or something like that even he's bailed on spss in favor of r
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Trig Discipline posted:fun fact: one of the dudes behind spss is the main dude behind revolution analytics or something like that I would say the overall consensus of what everyone has told me is R.
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the overall consensus of what everyone has told you is that you're an idiot
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lol but yes, the answer is r. it's a patchily maintained mishmash of whatever some rear end in a top hat thought was a good idea at the time but if you can be arsed to make the poo poo work it is pretty freaking amazing sometimes
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horse_ebookmarklet posted:This sounds a lot like Gapminder, but Gapminder is really cool. I read this, but it was something that has already been taken into consideration. That little question mark button previously mentioned ftw.
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