dstats 0.4

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ABOUT dstats

There are many applications available for simple statistical analysis of data, however none that I am aware of provide an easy to use command line interface that is compatible with a standard shell tool-chain. On one end, data files need to be munged or transformed to import into an application such as R or Excel; just to prep the data for import can be time consuming. On the other end, many developers spend precious time writing throwaway scripts, sometimes leveraging statistics libraries and sometimes not. The goal of this project is to provide one or more command line tools to ease the process of how descriptive statistics are obtained. For example, I would like to be able to issue a command such as zcat somefile.dat | cut -f3 -d',' | dstats -t sd to get the third column of a compressed CSV datafile and compute the standard deviation of that dataset. This project is in a pre-alpha stage, currently taking high-level concepts and munging some code around to try things out. Expect obvious bugs, input validation and other issues at this time.