Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Why most of the questions in data science are unaccepted?
Any user after getting the answer from any reputable source they don't reply and accept the answer. So those type of questions keep up popping forever and looking for an answer. It's specifically very ...
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Check out NLP Discussions on Stack Overflow
I’m Berthold, a community manager who works primarily with the Stack Overflow site. On SO, we’ve just launched an experimental “Discussions” feature within the NLP (Natural Language Processing) ...
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is datascience appropriate for my question on how to represent alternate perspectives in a graph database?
I'm learning how to use graph databases, and asked a question on Stack Overflow about how to represent different views involving some semantically-equivalent objects. I felt this was a valid and ...
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Are questions about AI/DS API prices on-topic or off-topic on this site?
Here is an example of a question about AI/DS API prices:
Question about Azure OpenAI pricing: Assume I ran 2 queries on GPT-4 (8k-token context). Each query consisted of 8 prompt tokens. Each query ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Merge [tag:evaluation] and [tag:model-evaluations]
The tags evaluation and model-evaluations seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
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Is that a right place to post questions about Stable Diffusion models?
Is that a right place to post questions about Stable Diffusion models?
It's looks like it is the most relevant place in stack exchange, but I have not found tag related to Stable Diffusion. If I'm ...
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Is trend data related to tags available?
I think I recall seeing somewhere that after a certain reputation level users get access to things like site analytics/data etc. I was curious if this means that high-reputation users have data on ...
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What details or clarification should I provide when asking about the differences between using text-davinci-003 with the Azure API vs with OpenAI API?
My question Is there any differences between using text-davinci-003 with the Azure API vs. with the OpenAI API? was closed as needing details or clarity. What details or clarification should I provide?...
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Should posts to DataScience contain only one question?
This post contains 3 questions as it’s currently written. I know that StackOverflow and GIS.stackexchange require one question per post. Does the same standard apply to DataScience?
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2022: 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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On AI-generated answers
The Stack Exchange network has been abuzz with talk of OpenAI's ChatGPT and its use to generate answers on the network. Similar but smaller-scale talk has happened in the past around other AI answer ...
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Should questions about data science book recommendations be considered on-topic for Data Science?
One recent example:
Can someone suggest good books or resources on SparkR?
It seems to me that asking for book recommendations does not adhere to the guidelines.
Examples of questions that are on-...
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Is this question better suited at Artificial Intelligence.SE and/or is it off-topic for this site?
This question of mine asks about if we have developed neural networks with meta-cognitive processes to improve its ability to learn. I wonder if this question is better suited for Artificial ...
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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