2012/2/14 Alexandre Passos <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 17:30, Gael Varoquaux > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Martin, >> >> Thanks for you enthousiasm, and thanks for the Crowdbase instance. The >> Q&A sites are definitively very useful. I am myself an occasional user of >> a few of them. Scikit-learn is actually very well represented on the main >> Q&A site for machine learn, http://metaoptimize.com/qa. >> >> With regards to the new sklearn.crowdbase.com, I am not completely sure >> that we are better off starting a site rather than benefiting from the >> existing ones such as metaoptimize. The main benefits of using an >> existing one is that it helps grows the comunity by drawing new users to >> the scikit, and having people who don't use the scikit answer general >> questions. >> >> Also, in the long run, I'd really like to see an ecosystem of Python >> scikit-learn like package for machine learning. Indeed, the scikit-learn >> cannot answer all usecases, and it is healthy to see packaging growing to >> complement it, or as incubators of new ideas. Having a Q&A website >> completely dedicated to scikit-learn might not help convey the message >> that the cake is big enough to be shared. >> > > +1 > > There are also a couple of other reasons. First, pointing the sklearn > Q&A to a new site will fail to reuse the google juice already obtained > by the existing sites (stats.stackexchange, metaoptimize, the future > machinelearning.stackexchange, etc). Second, all the existing website > already have pretty decent tagging mechanisms. It's easy, for example, > to have a bot scan the rss feed for a scikit-learn tag on those > websites and periodically email the list with a digest of questions, > allowing everyone to keep track of everything. Finally, there's the > issue of eyeballs, in that the existing site's visitors, by seeing > sklearn-related questions and answers, might feel impressed and more > inclined to contribute.
I agree, and for purely programming questions there is also stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=scikits The crowdbase UI is nice though. -- Olivier http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
