Med42v2 Dataset
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1 | <p>I would like to open the meta discussion on the criteria for closing.
I think we should be a little more open than the rest of the SE community when it comes to questions that are </p>
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<li><strong>Localized</strong>: academics travel a lot. Something that is localized today may not be localized for us tomorrow... | [
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"text": "<p>The recommended hardware for OctoPi is <a href=\"https://octoprint.org/download/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\"... | 2012/02/14 | [
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8 | <p>In reference to <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/49/what-are-the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-being-a-professor">this question</a> about being a professor, this is impossible to answer within the context of how SE wants us to answer questions. There's no definite answer, and even more so, the... | [
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"text": "<p>Based on the <a href=\"http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617?phase=definition\">example questions asked in th... | 2012/02/15 | [
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12 | <p>This particular SE has the significant problem that many answers will be "soft" in nature; there's no real literature on much of this, making many questions answerable only through "in my experience..." answers. <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/90/73">This answer</a> is a fine example of this... the ans... | [
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"text": "<p>I know I'm answering my own question, but I want to put forth the argument that <strong>these style answers should ... | 2012/02/15 | [
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17 | <p>By looking at the site today, it seems that "higher education" is an euphemism for "doctorate". The definition stage however doesn't imply that (<a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617/academia/16618#16618">1</a> <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617/academia/16618#16618">2</a> <a... | [
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"text": "<p>I would not define \"higher education\" as including high school. The usual definition includes college and above ... | 2012/02/15 | [
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21 | <p>Based on my answer in <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/a/13/73">this question</a>, I propose that we modify the tag placeholder text (currently "at least one tag (graduate-school note-taking science), max 5 tags") to strongly encourage the poster to provide a tag identifying the field of research bei... | [
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"text": "<p>While the experience of individuals will be mostly limited to one particular field and likely a specific geographic are... | 2012/02/16 | [
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23 | <p>I would vouch for accommodation questions to be on-topic, as long as they are clearly focused for academic hosting (that is, "Channels for accommodation for 6 months at VU-Amsterdam" is on-topic, "Looking for accommodation in Centralia, Pennsylvania" is not). Also, direct "Does anybody here have a room available fro... | [
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"text": "<p>There's a narrow line between \"how does a person find short-term housing near such-and-such university\" and \"does an... | 2012/02/16 | [
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24 | <p>This site should be pretty easy to publicize; simply post flyers around the various departments. Would someone with design skills be willing to throw together a flyer to be around the various campuses by Academia SE users?</p>
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"text": "<p>I have some design skills. I suggest that people should think of (and post as answers) some things that could be ... | 2012/02/16 | [
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36 | <p>In order to promote the site, it would be good to post a notification on some of the existing online forums where academics congregate.</p>
<ul>
<li>What online forums exist?</li>
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<p>As side points</p>
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<li>What community does the forum contain? How big is the community?</li>
<li>What rules exist regard... | [
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"text": "<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.physicsforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=139\" rel=\"nofollow\">Physics Forums</a>. Ch... | 2012/02/21 | [
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39 | <p>We have a new user who is being more disruptive than helpful:</p>
<p><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/323/what-makes-an-undergradute-in-computer-science-with-a-1-2-degree-more-employable">First question</a></p>
<p>The initial question was not ideal for SE, so people voted it down and to close ... | [
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"text": "<p>It's a good question, I was also wondering what one can do. In my experience on some forums, the best to do is us... | 2012/02/22 | [
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45 | <p>I'm wondering whether we should loosen the criterion for "too localized" in this forum. My intuition is that many questions on this forum will be very localized, but the answers will be more general in nature. For instance, <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/363/career-advice-for-a-recent-social-p... | [
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"text": "<p>In my mind, it should at least be possible for someone searching the site a month from now to find it helpful. It's... | 2012/02/22 | [
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55 | <p>When I saw this new StackExchange site, it first reminded me a lot of a tool that's being used in an increasing number of college-level courses called <a href="https://piazza.com/" rel="nofollow">Piazza</a>. Each "instance" of Piazza is a single semester of a single course offered at a university where students can... | [
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"text": "<p>In my mind, it should at least be possible for someone searching the site a month from now to find it helpful. It's... | 2012/02/24 | [
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60 | <p>I was wondering whether we should allow questions about academics searching for industry positions. <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/441/what-opportunities-exist-in-the-industry-for-a-researcher-in-computational-astro">This question on jobs outside of academia</a> was closed, based on our brand-... | [
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"text": "<p>Certainly not. There's a risk as it is that there are several posters treating this site as a careers advice forum... | 2012/02/26 | [
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64 | <p>I've noticed that it's only possible to mention another SE user using the "@" symbol in a comment thread where the user appears, and I was wondering if it was a feature or a bug. In particular, I couldn't find any easy to refer to another member, or just to draw the attention of another member to a particular questi... | [
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"text": "<p>There are no plans right now to introduce any sort of notification feature along these lines. Stack Exchange is by... | 2012/02/26 | [
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72 | <p>Many of the current answers begin with "It depends on your field" / "There is no one answer".
Indeed, each field is unique, although they share common grounds.</p>
<p>For questions that depend on the specific field, I would expect to see <strong>many</strong> answers, each for its own field, rather than having an a... | [
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"text": "<p>I think we should allow domain specific questions and cultivate domains within this server. </p>\n\n<p>we shoul... | 2012/03/04 | [
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73 | <p>I'm relatively new to Stack Exchange, so I'm not sure if there is a universal policy for closing questions across sites. But I've noticed here that there are questions with low or negative scores or questions that are similar to ones asked and answered before, and they're left hanging on the front page. Turnover see... | [
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"text": "<p>It's a good remark. In general, I think it can be good to leave the time for the OP to reformulate the question b... | 2012/03/06 | [
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83 | <p>Since we're about two weeks into the public beta now, I would think that it would be time to start considering adding more moderators (right now, I believe Anna is the only moderator, and she's with SE, as opposed to being a member-moderator.</p>
<p>Is it time to begin the process of adding <a href="http://blog.sta... | [
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"text": "<p><strong>Yes</strong>. This community, while still small, has had it's share of low-quality questions and trolls, an... | 2012/03/07 | [
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94 | <p>How can we fix <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/842/should-a-postdoc-obey-when-is-asked-to-do-things-she-knows-little-about">this question</a> to be more focused on helping postdocs and less argumentative and provocative?</p>
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"text": "<p><strong>Yes</strong>. This community, while still small, has had it's share of low-quality questions and trolls, an... | 2012/03/23 | [
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99 | <p>I note that this question implicitly prefers questions with a general topic but in fact very localized content (one's life story + a question of type 'What should I do?').</p>
<p>For example, one I asked a general question (i.e. if one can use his/her personal e-mail instead of institutional) then it was pointed ou... | [
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"text": "<p><strong>Yes</strong>. This community, while still small, has had it's share of low-quality questions and trolls, an... | 2012/03/27 | [
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111 | <p>We've had a couple questions since the dawn of Academia.SE asking for advice about undergraduate-related topics, the most recent being <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/1407/73">this well-formulated and generally pretty solid question</a>. In the past, we've <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.c... | [
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"text": "<p>You make a good point. For me, what I really want to avoid, are questions like: \"I like this and that, what pro... | 2012/05/04 | [
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115 | <p>I would love to ask a question on the tenure system that is in vogue in US. I see a few publications in Google, and also a few blog posts talking about the pros and cons of the system. </p>
<p>I wish to know the following:</p>
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<li>Is the tenure system efficient as such?</li>
<li>Is it likely/probable/possible... | [
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"text": "<p>I think that all of this discussion will fit in very well into most academic discussion forums. It's a discussion... | 2012/05/08 | [
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118 | <p>I was looking over our stats on area 51, and we're doing poorly on two counts: #questions/day and number of visits. I'm more concerned about the latter than the former for now (because fixing the latter will probably fix the former). </p>
<p>I was hoping this could become an open thread for ideas on how to boost th... | [
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"text": "<p>It's a good question, I've been also wondering what we could do about increasing the number of visits. We've had... | 2012/05/10 | [
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123 | <p>You love your site and we love your site, but there is a whole world of people out there who might not even know it exists. When they do find it, their first impression will either scare them away or keep them around. Given this, let's take a hard look at the questions and answers here and make sure newcomers see th... | [
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"text": "<p><a href=\"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1051/what-do-principal-investigators-pis-look-for-in-pros... | 2012/05/24 | [
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138 | <p>I've noticed that many of the <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/review/first-posts">recent questions asked by newcomers to the site</a> are low quality and/or off-topic, dealing with "what's the best university for discipline X?" and "how can I get into field/program X"? On a similarly ... | [
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"text": "<p>I agree that there has been several low quality questions recently, but I guess it's a combination between the f... | 2012/06/12 | [
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144 | <p>Well this question is bound to be controversial. What should we do?</p>
<p><a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/2113/319">What is being done to make the academic environment more women friendly?</a></p>
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"text": "<p>My feeling (mentioned in comments) is that the second part of the question (asking for references to work studyin... | 2012/06/24 | [
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149 | <p>As a followup to DQdlM's <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/104/are-questions-on-pedagogy-on-topic">question about pedagogy</a>, are questions about student recruitment, success, or retention on topic even if they are not related to curriculum development or instructional design?</p>
<p>For ... | [
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"text": "<p>I would definitely imagine this is on-topic. It's related to academia and specific to academics. I would suggest t... | 2012/06/27 | [
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152 | <p>I've just been to the stats of travel.SE and I found their stats phenomenally better than ours. While 8 questions and 1800 visits per day is excellent, I do think that some part of this has to do with the objective of the site: academia is much more exclusive than travel; in other words, all academics can have trave... | [
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"text": "<p>According to the SE \"targets\" A.SE is currently weak in questions per day (4.6/15) and visits per day (448/1... | 2012/07/04 | [
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157 | <p>In this <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/2545/929">answer</a>, the user has decided to provide a evidence for what makes him qualified for answering the question. While I can see it as potentially useful, I am not sure it is needed or desirable. Has the practice of prefacing answers with qualifications ... | [
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"text": "<p>I think that for this particular answer, it's quite similar to many other ones, where the answerer starts with \... | 2012/07/23 | [
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163 | <p>I was going to ask a question about graduation and I didn't find the tag I was looking for. I was thinking that an "events" tag would be useful for questions about different events that academics go to (e.g., graduation, new student invocation, thesis defenses, fund raising).</p>
<p><strong>EDIT</strong> In respons... | [
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"text": "<p>Perhaps \"milestones\" is a more appropriate tag than \"events?\" It's a better descriptor, at any rate. \"Events... | 2012/08/03 | [
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168 | <p>I am thinking specifically of <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2772/are-there-any-specific-teaching-techniques-to-handle-virtual-classroom-session#comment4504_2772">this question</a>, where my answer would be wholly different based on the type of virtual teaching environment. I would like to pro... | [
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"text": "<p>The vote is done to the answer as a whole. You would probably get higher votes for a more complete answ... | 2012/08/12 | [
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171 | <p>I know that the site stats (on the left side of the front page) include visitors/day. I'm guessing that is averaged over some time frame. Is there a place that I can see the number of visitors on each particular day?</p>
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174 | <p>Are questions on software on topic?</p>
<p>This question on <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3054/openoffice-vs-libreoffice-vs-msoffice-for-academic-writing">writing software</a> seems almost identical to questions on <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1880/software-to-use-fo... | [
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"text": "<p>As I stated <a href=\"https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/2993/73\">here</a>, I think software questions are defi... | 2012/08/31 | [
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180 | <p>In <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3086/opportunities-in-industry-after-a-phd-in-organic-chemistry">this question</a>, the OP wants to know the opportunities in industrial R&D after a PhD in organic chemistry. In general, industry vacancies and requirements do not have anything to do with a... | [
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"text": "<p><strong>No.</strong> Questions about careers outside academia should be off-topic.</p>\n\n<p>They're suitable to... | 2012/09/05 | [
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181 | <p>I saw <a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/190453/is-it-morally-right-and-pedagogically-right-to-google-answers-to-homework">a question</a> on the ethic of googling one's homework. The questioner, though having posted it on Math.SE, asks about the "pedagogical" merit of doing the same. This question has... | [
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"text": "<p>Funny you bring this one up; they had asked us whether we wanted it, and I turned it down as being too pedagogical.... | 2012/09/05 | [
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188 | <p>Are questions that are US-specific on-topic on this site? (i.e., only relevant to academia in the United States)</p>
<p>(Do people want to see those kinds of questions tagged or marked in any particular way?)</p>
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"text": "<p>Yes, these questions are fine. As of now we're not tagging these questions specifically as such; just indicate the ... | 2012/09/14 | [
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201 | <p>Some users create tags while adding question; some are highly useful and some are simply meaningless. Do SE have any mechanism to encourage users to add tag wiki as well, on creating tags?</p>
<p>Esp. see this question <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3022/in-conference-review-process-what-do-a... | [
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205 | <p><strong>What is this community’s take on deleting closed questions? What are the criteria for deletion?</strong></p>
<p>In the past few days, I have voted on deleting some of the closed questions that seemed to have absolutely no value to the site (<a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3203/extracti... | [
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"text": "<p>There are three main types of deletions that I personally have made:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https://academia.m... | 2012/10/14 | [
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211 | <p>Following up on our recent discussion <a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/205/what-should-happen-to-closed-questions">on closed questions</a>, I'm wondering if it might not be a bad idea to create a tag for closed questions. This might help us to "corral" them a bit better.</p>
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215 | <p>There has been some discussion recently here about deletion. What I could suggest, in order to avoid having one question here for each content we might want to delete, is to post as an answer to this question any other questions, answer or comment one would like to delete.</p>
<p><strong>If you have at least 2000 r... | [
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"text": "<p>A rhetorical question <a href=\"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/3690/what-is-irdam-jour... | 2012/10/16 | [
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238 | <p>Stack Exchange sites that have graduated run so-called “Community Promotion Ads”: these run in the right sidebar of each page, and are designated according to votes on the Meta of each site. For example, see <a href="https://physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/980/community-promotion-ads-2012">on Physics.SE</a>... | [
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"text": "<p>It's a good idea to plan. But the problem is technically we haven't graduated yet. We're still in beta mode. We ... | 2012/10/21 | [
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245 | <p>When tagging this question: <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/4930/344">How can I apply to be an adjunct faculty?</a>, I came across four tags that could either be synonyms or at least have more distinct definitions.</p>
<p>To be clear, I think that these could either be merged into two or even one tag ... | [
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258 | <p>As a community, where do we want to draw the line between editing old off-topic closed questions and changing them completely? This <a href="https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/1525/how-do-you-avoid-favoritism-and-personal-relationships-from-affecting-grading">recently edited question</a> has received many ... | [
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262 | <p>Along the lines of "<a href="https://academia.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178/third-excellent-on-area-51-congratulations-to-all-nearly-ready-for-graduat">Third excellent..."</a>, we now have <a href="http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/16617/academia">no more "needs work" categories</a>, having just bumpe... | [
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"text": "<p>Thanks for posting, good job to everyone who's participated and made this site as good as it is.</p>\n"
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270 | <p>What all we know, we (i.e. academia.SE) are hacking the system for objective verifiable Q&A for the purpose of advise questions. (And, IMHO, we have hacked it successfully).</p>
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273 | <p>Informally watching our stats on Area 51 leads me to the conclusion that our number of users and visits per day have increased faster than our questions per day. We use to be averaging a question per 100 visits and now we are averaging a question per 200 visits. I am concerned that we do not have enough questions to... | [
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283 | <p>Moderators have a view of the site's statistics, but they cannot share the specifics. So, I'm starting this post to keep track of the evolution of our statistics over time. Please feel free to update it every now and then:</p>
<p><b></p>
<pre><code> Date Qs/day Visits/day A. ratio Total user... | [
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288 | <p>I am currently in my grad program in CS, and I am interested in studying software engineering processes, project management, and metrics in a PhD program.</p>
<p>Can I ask here or on the main Academia site which universities are currently focused on researching the areas in which I am interested? </p>
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