Hey all! I've been working on this on-and-off for a few months, but it is sort of in a broken state right now on GitHub. I'm playing with some modifications to the charts and dependency graph, and the localStorage autosave/load is a bit glitchy.
Just saw Dan posted it now, and figured I should chime in (and push my last few commits).
I'm not sure why you find this so a priori implausible.
You're right that the CC link misses revenue sources -- but isn't that the point? Stanford seems to be using money from non-student revenue sources to subsidize a majority of per-student expenses. (That is, students are getting "paid.")
Or are you assuming that all that other revenue still comes from students (e.g. parking), or directly from an unchanging endowment? Stanford raises hundreds of millions of dollars in donations from people who aren't students every year, more than enough to cover that $244.4m shortfall directly. Direct income from students is only a small part of the overall university budget: http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/finances
Anyway, I'm only making a factual spending claim here. I make no claim about the effectiveness of the spending in educating students -- that's a separate issue.
Actually, Stanford does essentially pay students to go. Each undergraduate student costs Stanford about twice as much as they pay in tuition. This is typically the case at elite colleges, which is why they spend so much time seeking donations from alumni.
(Also, the vast majority of students don't pay full tuition anyway because of the extensive financial aid systems at these schools.)
My team built something similar at a recent hackathon. It attempts to automatically do this to an arbitrary WAV file (break up into waveforms) and generate a new piece of music:
https://github.com/osnr/markov-music
Just saw Dan posted it now, and figured I should chime in (and push my last few commits).
The version here works the OK-est, but it still needs work: http://www.omarrizwan.com/cruncher/
Hoping to get back to it sometime within the next few weeks.