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What is on-topic here?
Data Science and Cross Validated overlap. I'd say Cross Validated is more about statistics, math and theory, and Data Science is more about applied machine learning and data.
I'm a mod and I ...
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Is visualization an integral part of Data Science?
I'd also say yes.
What is visualization used for?
During your own data exploration process, plotting is essential
You have to communicate results to other scientists or peers from your
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Are questions about papers on-topic?
It seems about right.
Case 1: would be a common question.
Case 2: would probably be downvoted since it would be a question that doesn't show much effort, if a accepted paper doesn't give that kind of ...
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How can we define what is and what is not on topic?
I think the on/off-topic examples could be improved (though I'm not sure how to change them). No matter what, on/off-topic is subjective at the edges, and won't be perfect. That's OK. In practice, I ...
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What is our stance on website recommendation questions?
I generally prefer them to be rephrased as the underlying problem that's being solved, not as a question about web sites that have an answer to the problem. If you can construe the question that way (...
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What is our stance on questions on annotation programs?
Tough call. NLP and text classification is on-topic. Tools for NLP and text classification are also on-topic in my view. So a question about, say, R and NLP is on-topic, although we've usually said ...
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Are "improve my ML model" questions on-topic?
I'll propose that these are on-topic, but caution askers that such questions are often a poor fit to the Stack Exchange network, and may not attract many answers.
They're too broad. They can work ...
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Where to ask question with code related to datascience?
To me, it depends on how much the problem is actually code/debugging vs. statistical/etc. If it's primarily code, then ask on SO even if it requires some minor data science or specialized background ...
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Are questions about AI/DS API prices on-topic or off-topic on this site?
I would consider this off-topic, since this is about the price of a service rather than about its implementation/use/... . But since azure-ml etc. is generally on-...
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