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Next Steps for Data Science Stack Exchange
The Community Team has kept a close eye on Data Science SE during private beta. Today I have some great news -- the site will be entering public beta! This is slated to begin early next week.
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Is asking for the best NoSQL database for case X ok?
This question just popped up.
What is the Best NoSQL backend for a mobile game
I think it's off-topic and should be closed as it's much more a software recommendation than something comming with ...
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Is digital preservation on-topic?
The digital preservation Stack Exchange failed. Its topic was:
Q&A site for professionals working to ensure long term access to digital objects.
Is a digital object "data"? Is, therefore, ...
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Proper format for tags
I noticed a pattern in tags from CSTheory, which consists of adding an abbreviation before the name of an area. For example, if the tag is probability, they write ...
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Is visualization an integral part of Data Science?
In an answer to the question about what characterises the difference between data science and statistics, the main differentiation referred to
Data collection, Data manipulation, Data scale, Data ...
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How is Data Science Different From Cross-Validated?
I see a lot of two overlap in the two SE sites. I think both interest me in the research and possibly the professional work I do. What are some cases to use one and not the other. In particular, ...
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Is asking about data sets off-topic?
Can we discuss any of the following:
Is there a data set D to do task X?
How can I best clean data set D?
What are some good free data sets?
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For the record, asking for data sets is off-topic on ...
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Who are you and why are you here?
I feel it would be interesting to get to know other each other and why you are participating on this beta. As data science is fairly new, knowing about each other's background would provide us a ...
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Are questions about languages, libraries and databases on-topic?
Certain languages such as R and libraries/platforms such as Hadoop are used almost exclusively in data science. Should programming or configuration based questions for such languages, databases, ...
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Are ethical considerations for the data scientist within scope? Is {ethics} on topic?
Are all ethical considerations for the data scientist already subsumed by a blend of other professional disciplines and Information Security (INFOSEC)?
I can see that many ethical dilemmas will be ...
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Can we get TeX support?
Like on math.stackexchange, where (for example) I can type $\sqrt{2}$ for square root of 2?
If we want to be able to quote equations from data science research ...
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Should we adopt a [self-study] tag like stats.SE in scope and approach?
Should we implement a [self-study] tag in a similar way to stats.SE?
I think that curious people will be drawn to this site to find out more about big-data in general. My question is mainly two-fold:...
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What is the point of the [data-science] tag?
Why do we have a data-science tag? It's quite obviously redundant, and it could be applied to every question on the site, so why does it exist? This seems like having a [programming] tag on ...
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Are questions about structuring data for storage in databases/repositories/xxxx systems on topic?
One of the areas I am particularly interested in, is using systems like Lucene (ElasticSearch/Solr, etc.) to store data that is used for other computations.
Are questions about how to best index the ...
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What characterises the difference between data science and statistics?
The cliché holds that we are drowning in data, yet starving for knowledge. Wikipedia characterises data science as the generalizable extraction of knowledge from data, and it defines statistics as ...
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