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Wow. This could prove an invaluable tool for teaching. Great UI (love the way you can build the dataset with a paintbrush), top-quality visualization, wide choice of algorithms... Much better than R scripts if you want to show basic algorithms at work to a bunch of students. Many thanks

You should read the title again.

For the record, the Lisp dialect that is mentioned in the comments is http://lush.sourceforge.net/ with respect to the discussion, it is on the R/Python side, ie. powerful general-puspose (Lisp) language, with builtin Statistics facilities.

"No central authority" ? Well, I think the guys who decide there will only be 21 million bitcoins can be considered a central authority. Currency, in any form, is deemed to have a central authority -- national currencies, for example, have real-life value because states limit the available quantity. In this case, the Bitcoins people are acting as the central bank. Especially when I see that the total produced bitcoins will be halved each year by decision.

About monetizing: you could show the first 2 words only, and charge a small fee for the third ? I guess people would pay to see what is said about them at least.