Questions tagged [research]
Use for questions about Stack Overflow as subject or potential subject for a systematic investigation.
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Invitation for Unregistered Users to Opt-In to Research
Starting today, logged-out users on Stack Overflow will see a banner with a survey to join our research panel. This simply means opting in to be contacted to participate in future research ...
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New User Experience: Deep Dive into our Research on the Staging Ground – How do you feel about review badges & opt-in settings for the Staging Ground?
Last week, we posted here on Meta about the new feature that we are launching, called the Staging Ground – a place where newly registered, low-rep users would receive help from higher-rep Stack ...
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The user research behind Collectives™ on Stack Overflow
As you may have seen, we launched a new initiative today: CollectivesTM on Stack Overflow. For over a year now, I’ve led our Product Research efforts on this project. In this post I want to share some ...
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Where can I find statistics about deleted questions related to Stack Overflow?
I have found similar questions in this meta site so I hope it is the appropriate place to ask it.
For my research, I need statistics on deletions between July 1, 2013 and March 4 2019 related to Stack ...
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How to collect question text before and after an edit - for recommending a suggestion when a user posts a question
We would like to model the complete process of a user posting a new question and editing their question.
We found the data in archive.org, PostHistory.xml, which only contains the comments about the ...
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What resources should I consult before asking on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
Motivation:
Sometimes what I see in stackoverflow answers are quotes from official docs or what can be easily figured out using things like man or help. That was the motivation behind this problem.
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Bugs / Design issues on the Stack Overflow Research / Learn More page
On the learn more page linked from the research page, there are a few bugs.
In the contact field, some have - before and after (e.g. - Job Title -) and others don't. This doesn't seem to signify ...
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How do I earn reputation if Stack Overflow is so good that I can always find my answer without posting a question? [duplicate]
Stackoverflow has been instrumental in my career development; I've been using it for a long time and always found answers to my questions.
If every question I've ever had is already answered (...
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