(Putting this in a separate comment because it’s a bit meta, and not about the dataset itself)
This “here’s an interesting dataset to play with” approach might ring a bell with some folks here. Statwing was a YC S12 company, and we were acquired by Qualtrics in 2016. We used to try to find interesting datasets and stick them into Statwing, like the Stack Overflow survey of software developers discussed on this HN thread[1].
It’s 2020, and @lejohnq and I (and a team of other socially-minded engineers) are still working on Statwing (now called Stats iQ). We were looking for a way that we could do something (anything!) useful to help with COVID-19, and realized that we could apply that old approach to interesting public health-related questions.
So, yes, there is an element of “we hope people play with Stats iQ, like it, and then sign up to use it professionally on their data or want to work with us (we’re hiring)” But I can assure you that we personally stand almost nothing to gain financially from this, and that the primary reason we care about ROI on this is so we can justify doing more work like this in the future.
This “here’s an interesting dataset to play with” approach might ring a bell with some folks here. Statwing was a YC S12 company, and we were acquired by Qualtrics in 2016. We used to try to find interesting datasets and stick them into Statwing, like the Stack Overflow survey of software developers discussed on this HN thread[1].
It’s 2020, and @lejohnq and I (and a team of other socially-minded engineers) are still working on Statwing (now called Stats iQ). We were looking for a way that we could do something (anything!) useful to help with COVID-19, and realized that we could apply that old approach to interesting public health-related questions.
So, yes, there is an element of “we hope people play with Stats iQ, like it, and then sign up to use it professionally on their data or want to work with us (we’re hiring)” But I can assure you that we personally stand almost nothing to gain financially from this, and that the primary reason we care about ROI on this is so we can justify doing more work like this in the future.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7874289