I'm glad to see other people working on this problem. We (Wolfram|Alpha) are doing this too, starting out with the making the 'easy cases' nearly automatic.
You can also play around with our examples without having to sign up to Wolfram|Alpha Pro. My favorite is an automatic analysis of the Titanic data that nicely illustrates that while the motto "women and children first" applied, being rich certainly helped: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+&examplefile=1&...
We cover other kinds of simple analysis and visualization too, like heat maps, Venn diagrams, graphs, and so on. As always, feedback welcome.
Agreed, glad to be a part of the community of folks trying to democratize data analysis. It feels like an important problem to work on, and we're passionate about it (as I'm sure you are, too).
Here's a blog-post describing our effort: http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2012/02/09/launching-a-democrat...
You can also play around with our examples without having to sign up to Wolfram|Alpha Pro. My favorite is an automatic analysis of the Titanic data that nicely illustrates that while the motto "women and children first" applied, being rich certainly helped: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+&examplefile=1&...
We cover other kinds of simple analysis and visualization too, like heat maps, Venn diagrams, graphs, and so on. As always, feedback welcome.