Yup. My old company (www.crowdflower.com) has a platform set up to do this.

This is really cool. BUT, I think most HN readers would be most interested in the founding stories, and the hustle / hurdles overcome / pivots that these founders showcased.

For instance, there's no mention that Slack came out of a failed game company or that Uber was originally supposed to just be on-demand limos for a small group of friends! These are the key parts of the stories that are missing.

I'd be really interested to know (we'll have to wait for AirBnb's S-1) what the difference in gross margins. Marriott has to own / operate its hotels. AirBnb puts that on the host, and pretty much only has insurance and customer support as its marginal costs.

I don't know where this trope came from but the big hotel chains most definitely do not own all their properties. They provide brand standards, a common reservations system, customer service and a loyalty program (which can be incredibly lucrative by itself).

But they definitely do not own all their hotels. Marriott-owned properties number in the low double-digits.

Well Marriott still manages to have 200,000 employees operating the hotels (per rokhayakebe's numbers) so its not like they've contracted out running the hotels for a fixed cost or something. They're doing a lot more than running a reservation and customer service system.

Nice catch! We thought that was quite the color name.

We should've been more clear on that - the English translation is the shortest string length submission we received for that color, while the color name (for English) is the longest (we figured the longest submission would be the most interesting). We only had two different submissions for English, for all other languages we put native language and the English translation.

There are some hidden gems in there one contributor named "Vacation At The Seaside Blue" while another called it "sky," as well as "Bright Endless Meadows Green," while another called that color "green."

You can also download the full dataset on our blog.

I found one brownish dot in the "red" sector whose English name was "Milk Chocolate" and whose English translation was "Peru".

That's pretty cool, we definitely had some pretty interesting name submissions in our color study as well.

Are there any plans to add-in any realtime feeds? Like say weather data and the Dow jones close to see any correlations?

Depends on what you mean by realtime. In most cases (stats-wise, anyway) analyzing a non-stored infinite-length data stream is a very different challenge from analyzing a stored, finite-length data set.

Streaming algorithms do exist for many basic statistical measures. But in many other cases, the best streaming algos aren't cheap or accurate enough to be useful.

Bucketing can sometimes substitute for a bona fide streaming algorithm. But again, there's plenty of cases where bucketing won't work well enough to make it useful.

I haven't really looked at Statwing yet--the premise is really tantalizing, though. Gotta find an excuse to throw a spreadsheet in there and see what comes back.

+1. I really like the intuitive interface and the speed with which I can conduct analysis. It would be great to have a library of feeds for each user that is automatically curated / updated. This library could include both public datasets (fore free) but also proprietary feeds specific to my industry or even my company that are only accessible by me (which I would pay for).

This would indeed be super cool. Could definitely see us getting to this eventually.