Maybe someone could add a link on sklearn web site to those 2 machine learning QA site? This will help spread there usage.
Fred On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Martin Laprise <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks all for you constructive comments, > > I think your right. In fact, it was also my impression that a QA dedicated > to sklearn is a little bit overkill, but I convinced myself that there is > never to much communication channels. That said, I think your right, sklearn > will have better visibility if you use the existing platform. So the > experiment is over ! :-) > > Martin > > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Olivier Grisel <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > 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-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Scikit-learn-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! 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-d2d _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
