Sorry for the poor audio quality in the video. Some random thoughts that may be of interest:<p>1. I've been in grad school for economics the last four years. The program basically embodies all the things I've learned about econometrics, i.e. applied statistics. Wizard does about 1% of the things that R does, but it does them very, very well.<p>2. Wizard is fast. All the tight loops are written in C. Wizard will use all the cores on your Mac as well as the CPU's vector capabilities. This was achieved with a combination of Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL. I highly recommend both technologies. For my research I am using Wizard on data sets with ~3 million rows, and it works like a champ.<p>3. The main weaknesses of the program is that it does not deal with time-series data particularly well, and you can't manually enter data. These shortcomings will be addressed in future releases.<p>4. The program is closed-source. I might make some of the libraries open-source. Or I might not. I haven't decided.<p>5. The non-Pro version will be released sometime next week.<p>6. I have absolutely no regrets about not writing Wizard using JavaScript and HTML5.<p>7. [Edit] You can read a review of the pre-release version of the program here: <a href="http://www.macstats.org/reviews/wizard.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.macstats.org/reviews/wizard.html</a>
Seeing pricing >$50 for software products always makes me happy as a bootstrapper.<p>It shows you trust the value your customers will put in your product.
Just tried it out. Looks really good. Would be a perfect plug-in for Sequel Pro for example. What other products are there in the same space (easy-to-use statistics tools for Mac)?