Questions tagged [stackoverflow]
Stack Overflow is a website part of the Stack Exchange network featuring questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming.
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I think we need to talk about the SO/CV interface again
Two hours ago (ish), a new user posted this question on two-tailed F-values - how to do them in R.
He (or she, but I'm going to say he) was told to take it to SO. So, he did what he can see to do -- ...
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Can any of the people involved in the migration of this question explain why?
This question was just migrated to stackoverflow (well, an hour ago).
As far as I can see a great deal of it's pretty solidly on topic here.
"What is this function called?" is not a SO question, it'...
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When should programming questions be closed as off-topic, and when migrated to SO?
Questions can be closed as off topic because they are not about statistics or focus on programming. This is distinct from questions which are about programming and belong on StackOverflow. There is ...
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GINI score - what does the distribution of reputation across CV look like?
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I was on Stack Overflow and they seem to have a lot more traffic and users there. It seems to make sense to me because knew many more CS majors than stats majors in college. This made me ...
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How does Stack Overflow actually manage to work given ~100x higher traffic than here, and what can we learn from it?
This question is inspired by @Glen_b's worry yesterday that we [are] seeing a dramatic drop in answers per question and is also related to my own question from almost a year ago about How not to miss ...
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Why does the “programming” closure message not mention Stack Overflow?
When we close questions that appear to be about programming, a message appears that links to Open Data or to a CV Meta post about software support.
Not mentioning Stack Overflow seems like a gigantic ...
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Migrating software syntax to StackOverflow or DataScience?
This is a provocative question: should we send "How do I do this in R/SAS/Python/Stata/SPSS" questions to the DataScience, now that it's open?
Data cleaning is never a programming question, as it ...
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Migrating programming questions to StackOverflow
Yesterday, I asked this question:
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/199283/train-test-split-in-rs-caret-package
which was promptly downvoted and closed due to being off topic. I understand ...
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Why do we close programming questions instead of migrating them to SO?
I have the (possibility wrong) impression that most programming questions are closed with the motivation "this is not about stats, but about programming, or etc.", rather than being migrated to SO. ...
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Should I ask questions about interpreting printouts from a statistical package here or on SO?
There's a function from a statistical package whose printout I'm slightly confused about. Should I ask about it on SO or here? On the one hand, it doesn't have anything to do with coding/programming, ...
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