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New design launched
As you can see, the new design just went live! At this point, we are done with major revisions to the design (although you can still report CSS/styling bugs by starting a new post and tagging it with ...
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AWS will be sponsoring Data Science
We're thrilled to announce that AWS will be sponsoring Data Science starting on July 18 through December 31. We wanted to give you a heads-up and walk you through what that means.
How and where will ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #3 on Data Science has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering ...
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Site design and logo — Draft
👋 I’m Simon, a designer at Stack Overflow and I’ve been tasked with designing a custom theme for this community. I’ve looked at your ideas in this former post, and came up with a design I hope fits ...
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2022 Community Moderator Election
The 2022 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2022 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Data Science Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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I cannot get 'autobiographer' badge
I edited 'about me' section, but cannot get 'autobiographer' bronze badge.
What is the problem?
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Custom Data Science design and logo - Information gathering
Congratulations, Data Science community! We’re going to be creating a custom site design for you that we hope will represent your subject and we want you all to really love it. You’ve been waiting ...
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Coming soon: Moderator Election
We would like to give you a heads-up that in June, we will hold a moderator election to fill the slot for a third moderator to fill in for our long-time moderator Dawny33. We will kick off the ...
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How to deal with questions already answered on other communities like Stack Overflow or stats exchange?
I see a lot of questions those are already answered on other communities like StackOverflow or Stats Stackexchange. We can not mark it duplicate as its not on our community. After providing the link ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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How to deal with follow up questions posted as answers?
I was recently looking through some old questions and stumbled upon a question that was relatively high impact (somewhere around 10k+ views). As such, it has somewhere around four or five answers.
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Intel will soon be sponsoring Data Science
We're excited to announce that Intel will be sponsoring Data Science beginning November 11th through February 7, 2022. We wanted to give you a heads up and walk you through what it will look like.
How ...
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Why does the community not support, answer to be undeleted
I would like to understand why my answer to this question was deleted by moderators in the past 17:28 by Stephen with comments to modify the answer in future time 17:29 by oW_.
After spending 45 mins ...
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How to unblock account?
I have been blocked from asking questions. I've gone back and answered my own questions. My goal for joining this community was to develop relationships with other members, ask questions, and learn. I ...
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Ouch. Dark mode?
Do we know when non Stack Overflow communities will get dark mode? I have clicked around in the user profile/settings area looking for this feature.
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Community conscious on viewing hot questions from artificial intelligence and cross validated stack exchange
It is a well-known fact that overlap is high between the three sites: Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Cross Validated.
If we go through the meta-questions of individual sites, we can also find ...
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Community Ads for 2021
September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. Since none of ad proposals on this site made it past the score thresholds, none will be displayed — go to the main post on MSE for a list of ...
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Both my comment on original question and a new question was deleted, what is the way ahead?
First of all, apologies if this sounds confusing. I read a question on fit and fit_transform at the below link:
What's the ...
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Custom flag for cross-posting was declined with puzzling justification
I recently raised a custom flag in this question for being cross-posted to Stack Overflow; to my surprize, the flag was
declined - Using standard flags helps us prioritize problems and resolve them ...
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Stack Overflow is planning to give their non-programming Machine Learning questions wholesale to Cross Validated
Just a note that Stack Overflow is looking to give away their closed questions on theoretical (i.e. non-programming) aspects of ML to Cross Validated:
Let's gift wrap our (good) Machine Learning ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Do we need both orange and orange3 tags?
Recently many orange posts have had the orange3 tag also added. Is there a compelling reason for the existence of both tags?
At time of posting, there are 77 questions tagged with orange3 and 179 ...
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Tag Request - PLS
I was going to create a new tag for the site for pls (Partial Least Squares), but this action requires 1500 reputation. A quick search of this subject on the site ...
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Why is my question not reopened again?
This is my question, which was closed because I was asking 2 questions in 1 question... but now I removed the first question and made it focus one question only. So why is it not re opened now?
Thanks!...
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Are "where can I find a dataset on x" questions on topic?
Some very interesting findings can occur when a new dataset is discovered or created.
Presuming someone has done some searching in obvious places, are questions like "where can I find a dataset ...
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Do we vote to close questions with high vote counts?
Another question regarding close votes (since I have seen so many populating the review queues recently) - how should we approach/evaluate closing questions which have relatively high vote counts?
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Should we burninate unbalanced-classes tag and merge it with class-imbalance?
Currently there are two tags for class imbalance, class-imbalance and unbalanced-classes.
Given that they refer to the exact same thing, and that the standard term in the literature is "class ...
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How to deal with "how do I interpret this?" type questions
It seems like exceedingly I come across a large number of posts that ask questions that share some resemblance to the question "these are my results, how do I interpret them?" It seems like ...
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How to protest a down vote?
I'm new here, and one of my posts got down voted.
How to I protest that?
Can the down vote get cancelled?
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Can we ask questions and answer them by our self?
Can we ask questions and answer them, if we believe that other people may refer to them in the future?
Is it ethical to do this to get better reputation in this community?
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Excessive downvoting
At the moment about 6 questions on the front page are down-voted,
it was not like that about 10 minutes ago - seems there is just one user who creates a series of downvotes.
It seems to me that it is ...
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How to deal with suspected homework questions?
I regularly see what looks to me like homework questions (example) and I'm never sure what is the policy about such questions on DataScienceSE:
Currently I assume that the policy is along the lines ...
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Do reviewers auto-suggest to close as "needs more focus" when multiple question marks are present?
I've been bothered by this issue for a while, but this question (Should I normalise image pixel wise for a pretrained model) in particular made me think that this might be the case.
The question can ...
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Opinion Based but relevant
As Data Science, we base much of our work on intuition and experimentation and this reflects on the kind of questions that end up been asked around DSSE.
Many times we want a recommendation or discuss ...
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What steps, as a community, should we take to correct the flow of questions between StackOverflow and DSSE?
For the first time in a while I went to StackOverflow, looking for question to answer under the python tag.
I found many questions, including some with high ...
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How to proceed when a bountied question should be closed
Right now, there are two bountied questions in DSSE
Chain Function in Backprograpagation: which is in need for clarification and
'TabularLIME' is not defined Azure DataBricks: which is off-topic
The ...
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Closing question based on inactivity
I want to know if there is a way to vote for closing questions based on inactivity from OP's side. There are more than 9000 unanswered question on https://datascience.stackexchange.com where some of ...
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Edit questions that only update hyperlinks
Lately I have been seeing a lot of edits that only transform a URL into a hyperlink.
It sometimes helps the ease of reading, and makes it look a little bit better, but most of the times I feel that is ...
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Do we have a 'canonical' question for "how to avoid overfitting"?
I've encountered this question looking for "some guideline about how to manage the over-fitting problem". OP has enough specifics in their question for me to give a specific answer, but I ...
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Misspelled sematic-similarity tag
I came across the sematic-similarity tag. It is seldom used but it should be spelt correctly at least.
Can someone update the tag?
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Difference between hyperparameter and hyperparameter-tuning tags
It seems that there are two similar tags: hyperparameter and hyperparameter-tuning (see below)
Both tags are used at relatively ...
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Should accepting an answer also upvote that answer?
I realized that currently, it's possible to accept/upvote in a completely separate way.
I don't think the following situations make any sense:
user downvotes the answer but accepts it as best
the ...
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How to flag post which indicates a commercial purpose?
How should I flag a post which indicates a commercial purpose?
Some posts have expressions like: "for my client", "it's part of project in my job", etc.
Are posts like these compatible with the SE ...
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Is my question legal to ask on Data Science Stack Exchange?
I would just like to know if Data Science Stack Exchange is a proper place to ask my question. I'm pasting it below.
I'm a data analyst, I studied maths and statistics and I've been working as an ...
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Is the tag 'web-scrapping' really correct?
I recently used the tag web-scrapping, having first read it as 'web-scraping'. I realised it actually says 'web-scrapping'. Since I guess that does not really make sense, I guess it is a typo? Can we ...
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What can I do to improve my question about gibbs sampling?
So a while back, I ask a question about Gibbs sampling, but got no response.
If I use Gibbs sampling with a Bayesian model, what do I have to check is memoryless?
My question is really about a ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020 [duplicate]
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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How to improve a question about adapting algorithm?
My question about adapting a binary tree algorithm to make it a multi-class algorithm has been closed without a comment. I have edited it, I would like to improve it to have it reopen but I can't ...
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Are questions about data integration on topic on this site?
Data integration, according to Wikipedia, is
Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources
and providing users with a unified view of them.
So at least part of it seems ...
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