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I've always found it a bit depressing that Lisp-Stat died, and Incanter became stagnant. Ross Ihaka, one of R's creators recognised a Lisp-based solution is the way to go. Interestingly, even R is borrowing some ideas from Scheme.

https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/downloads/Compstat-20...

I have similar laments, but am hoping Julia will carry this torch.

Cool. Where can I download the json data for UFC fighters?

I'm wondering the same. Unfortunately, all I've been able to find is FightMetric which asks to contact them for a quote: http://www.fightmetric.com/data

For legal purposes I don't think I can give out the data, but you can find/write applications that parse public information related to the UFC.

You may or may not beable to request JSON data via the UFC website. You may or may not beable to call the same API as fightmetric.com. You may or may not beable to save the data legally sent to your machine using a modified request.

This is awesome

;)

This is great.

Does FightMetric include data on on disclosed fighter pay? I'd love to see a basic statistical analysis of average yearly pay.

Saved you a search (I'd never heard of UFC): "Ultimate Fighting Championship". http://www.ufc.com

Clojure and The UFC: Part 1