(Going off-tangent here...sorry, hacker news makes me think like this). Chris, what do you think about setting up a stats-plotting-as-a-service kind of thing? People would give you data in some acceptable format and you chart it up and send it back? I am thinking of this more as a consumer service. At work, every once in a while, I get data back from testing and then I am scrambling to use gnuplot to chart data because using charts allows me to quickly visualize patterns and communicate the result of the data to others. But, I am not an expert at this and am continually refreshing my rusty knowledge and have always thought it would be great to send data out to someone who is comfortable doing this and get it back charted from them.

Note that I am thinking small (every once in a while; small amounts of data). Something like a subscription service for a small monthly fee. Or the ability to do one time payment for one-off jobs. Things I would look for in such a service are (1) willingness to clean data a little bit (most times I get excel spreadsheets, but I always need to do some tweaking to how the data is presented) (2) support to do a NDA -- this is mostly so the company I am with doesn't get annoyed that I am sending sensitive data to a random outside service.

My needs might be small, but to me it seems like this might be a valuable service for organizations that continually handle large amounts of data.

Just a thought...