Marco Pasin looks at the StackLite data set:
According to Stack Overflow documentation, these are the categories of questions that may be closed by the community users:
- duplicated
- off topic
- unclear
- too broad
- primarily opinion-based
Not everyone in the Stack Overflow community is able to close a question. In fact users need to have certain reputation expressed in points (more details here).To calculate the overall website closure rate is easy. Just use the original “questions_2016” dataset and count how many questions have the field “Closed Date” populated. Over 10% of questions made in 2016 have been closed so far.
If you’re interested in learning more about data analysis, walk through the exercise as well and play around with the data set too. Hat tip, R-Bloggers.