Where we are going

[Covington]

All good projects need a road map.

Here we'd like to discuss where we are going and what our objectives
and aspirations are for this endeavor.


We wish to bring the power of statistical analysis and data
manipulation to the people.

Powerful statistical tools exist but are often difficult for the
novice user to interact with as the format is unfamiliar. Often a
'command line' must be employed which greatly increases the learning
curve. The interaction between functions and data is not visible and
even expert users are hard pressed to memorize all of the functions
that they may want to use and how to call them.

Why do we use functions?

Data analysis is art. How one achieves this art is not important.
Those who perform analyses are valued because they can find the
needles in a pile of hay not because they can type lines in a terminal
or remember function names. We use functions to manipulate and
display data. RedR converts cumbersome input lines into easy to use
and visualize workflows. You can see where your data enters, send it
to be subset, send that to compare parts of the subset, then plot
those parts. All in a visual interactive environment where, at any
point, you may branch and make other decisions, other subsets, or see
other data.

We hope to bring people together in the data analysis community. One
of the future goals of this system is to facilitate interaction
between the expert and novice users with respect to generation of data
analysis pipelines so that expert made pipelines can be shared with
novice RedR users.

These are some of the things that we are working on at RedR. And we
hope you can help with your suggestions and comments.