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Nice idea. How does this compare to someline like Cloud 9?

Minor interface note: I think the Run Line / Run Script buttons look a little out of place and too big.

Thanks. DataJoy is aimed at a totally different market from Cloud 9. We want to make it easy for scientists and people doing data analysis, statistics, etc rather that developing software packages. The difference is that this requires a much more interactive environment where the code you're running is constantly evolving and being iterated on (if you've ever generated a plot, you'll know how many times it takes to get perfect). So we're aiming to work well for that use case.

You are definitely correct when it comes to non-software developers needing tools to do data analysis that allow for a lot more iteration and ad hoc exploration.

How do you see this competing with / differentiating itself from RStudio? The python support?

In the statistics department I was recently at, R was the lingua franca and Rstudio was how we wrote it. I have not found a better product yet for ad hoc exploration than Rstudio but will certainly give this a go.

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