You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Reviewing questions and applying LaTeX format
Questions formatted in LaTeX are easier to read, but not everyone who has permission to review a question/answer knows how to do it (maybe I am an "outlier" here, but not sure).
Are there any ...
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Points of information for lowly members
I'm looking at this page, which includes an R expression (for the gam function in the mgcv package). The R expression includes two elements (functions?) which do not appear on the help page for that ...
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CART as junior synonym to Decision Tree
I would recommend to make "cart" and "classification-tree" tags junior synonyms of "decision-tree". Because, often CART acronym is regarded to be just a particular method or algorithm of the tree ...
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Answered questions filter for tags page
It is possible (I discovered!) to filter out unanswered questions from a search.
It doesn't seem to be possible to do the same when you pull up questions by clicking on a tag.
The question search ...
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'Answered questions' filter for questions page
Currently, the main questions page has a filter for unanswered questions - obviously, for the benefit of those with the expertise to answer such questions (or some of them).
I'm at the other end of ...
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Upright greek letters
I was wondering if anyone knew how I could produce upright greek letters on stats.SE? In my documents, I usually do this using the $\LaTeX$ upgreek package.
Edit
I am uploading an image of what I ...
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Do we need a soft question tag?
I have just asked a question that I think would qualify on http://math.stackexchange.com as a soft question (it relates to general methods for survey data).
Would it be worth creating a "soft ...
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Ability to suggest tag synonyms without 5 in the tag
There are some little used tags that have synonyms. It is hard to get 5 reputation in these tags (they are little used!) but synonyms could still be useful. Indeed, they might be especially useful as ...
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Is there a way to see your progress toward badges?
CV has tons of badges. Some require that you do XXXX task XXXX times (e.g. edit 500 posts). Is there a way to see your progress toward these goals?
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Maybe it is time to change the rule to delete rep votes when users are removed
Last night I lost 125 rep points because a user was removed. I suspect that other users of CV also lost many point because of this, particularly the high rep users. This is very unfair. A few days ...
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Weighted vote mechanism
I have noted that the vote mechanism assign the same score for one vote up/down independently by the user score. In my opinion this is not fairly as high scored users has a deeper understanding of the ...
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When the page crashes while you're posting/editing an answer
I've noticed a rather odd phenomena with the site on a number of occasions:
When I'm posting an answer for the first time, the draft is continually saved and so, if the page happens to crash while ...
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Seeing answers while editing question
I have seem this in other boards systems (although this is not actually a board). Maybe it would be helpful to offer a list of the previous answers so you can read what was stated while editing? I ...
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Can we have a self-study tag?
There are lots of good questions on CV asking for references for self study, or for methods of learning, or other self study resources (a search for ...
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Support for bibtex / ams citation exports from stats.SE Q/A
The ability to export a citation would make it easier for an author to cite a question or answer. It would also increase the percieved legitimacy (to editors and authors) of citing a stats.SE ...
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Tag request: [tag:analytic-form]
This question:
Steps to figure out a posterior distribution when it might be simple enough to have an analytic form?
leads me to idea we need analytic-form tag. There might be plenty other similar ...
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Should there be a way to indicate answers you're especially proud of on your user profile page?
I've learned an incredible amount on this site from the many great contributors we have. One situation that often occurs is that I notice a particularly insightful answer and I click on the user's ...
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Uploading data to site?
Would it be possible to provide a facility to upload data, in a similar way that an image can be uploaded?
For example, although small samples of data can be pasted into the question, it could be a ...
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Make notification bar transparent enough to see links/search underneath
A prominent blogger made a post today giving our site a plug. The poster initially made a comment that he could not find the search bar, and it was later determined that the opaque notification bar ...
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Why are comments not included in question-feeds?
I like to monitor the development of a question in which I'm involved in an RSS-reader. Often the interesting development is in the comments, though. Currently, a question's RSS feed includes only the ...
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Is it possible to subscribe to a specific user's answers?
I appreciate the ability to subscribe to tags that are of interest to me, and I would similarly like the ability to subscribe to answers from a specific user. Without naming names, I have noticed that ...
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Bibtex support in the answers or questions
See this answer. The poster uses bibtex syntax to give the references to articles. It does not look nice, but if bibtex was supported, it would look fantastic. Citing articles using Zotero for example ...
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Do we need to hide some lengthy content in answers or questions?
While reading some extended and not-so-short answers with graphs and codes I came to a common forum-like idea of hiding/showing an additional though probably useful content in the body of answers or ...
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Can I suggest that a question be migrated to another stack exchange site?
I saw a question that belongs more to quantitative-finance.SE than to stats.SE.
Is there a way to migrate questions across SE sites?
If there is, is it appropriate to suggest the user ask on another ...
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Tag synonym: auc -> roc?
I believe auc should be a synonym for roc. auc was created only for this question.
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How to notify me when someone comment my question?
I didn't get any notify that someone give comment to me.
How to set the be alarmed?
Thank you~
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Comments that are actually answers
Related discussion on Meta.SO.
Is there some kind of way that comments that are infact answers to questions be moved from a comment section into the answer section? Ideally the user who asks the ...
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Copy formula from a comment
When replying to a question it's often useful to copy the $\LaTeX$ source of formulas in it by pressing the edit button and cp&p from the source text. (And eventually modify them in the answer.)
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bordermatrix in MathJaX
It would be nice to have the option to use bordermatrix in MathJaX. See the bottom of the page http://www.math.harvard.edu/texman/node25.html
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Will there ever be a “random” or “surprise me” button?
I'm learning everything I can about statistics and would love to have a "surprise me" button that would jump to a random question. (And of course, an easily-reachable "surprise me" button on that ...
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How to unvote on comments?
Occasionally I mistakenly upvote a comment. There seems to be no way to undo this action. Is this a bug? A feature? My missing something?
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Feature to edit without bumping?
I've seen related questions regarding tag editing, but not editing of an actual response.
Is there a way to edit a response to a question without bumping it back up to the top?
I find that I ...
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Clustering picture gallery
This is a proposed community wiki to collect pictures of
unsupervised clustering of data sets, e.g. k-means
and ANN, approximate nearest neighbors.
Both pictures of clusters themselves,
and diagrams ...
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Could 'r' tag be displayed as a capital 'R'?
Is there any chance of making the 'r' tage display as 'R'? I think it would make its meaning clearer. Must confuse newbies.
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What migration paths should we allow?
See this blog post from Jeff. I suggest we need to allow migration to StackOverflow (the programming questions) and math.stackexchange (the more mathematical questions). What other migration paths do ...
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Can we have the option of making a question CW but let the answers be non-CW?
This feature is needed on Polystats projects that we are starting on stats.stackexchange.com. See these threads for what they are: What should be our first Polystats project? and How about starting a ...
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Shall I attach pieces of code to my answers?
I'm very grateful for the code function, as it makes it easy to illustrate some answers. Yet, I feel I for one have the risk of overloading my answer with R code. Good if you know R, but not always ...
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Syntax highlighting for code chunks
Several blogging systems now includes an optional syntax highlighting scheme for most common languages, including Python, Perl, Ruby, R, Matlab, etc. Code chuncks are post-processed using CodeRay, or ...
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Can we have a “belongs on [any se site]” option
Is there a possibility to close a question with a reason "belong on [some site]" where some site is replaced by any stack exchange site like math.stackexchange.com or stackoverflow.com
I would ...
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Prompting to accept an answer
In SO, if you don't accept an answer after a few days, then the following phrase appears above the question:
Have you considered accepting an
answer or starting a bounty for this
question?
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Is it possible to integrate data from so.com/questions/tagged/r here?
There is some concern that this new site may bifurcate the statistical computing community that has been extremely active over the last several months at Stackoverflow under the R tag. The thought is ...
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A sketching tool would be very useful
I basic sketching tool to quickly draw out graphs / concepts etc. along the lines of Balsamiq markups would be really useful. It would be doubly useful if people answering questions could access the ...
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Links to questions asked, answered or commented on?
As the site becomes bigger it's reasonable to suppose that contributors will have asked, answered or commented on various questions scattered all over the site. It would be nice if there could some ...
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What typographic support is available to support display of statistical formula?
There will be occasions when it would be useful to be able to include a statistical formula within a question, answer, or comment. How is this supported?
