The Science category includes proposals in subjects like the applied, natural, cognitive, formal, and social sciences.
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Shouldn't this be “Statistics Data”?
Proposal: Data
If you're going to call it 'Data', why does it have to be all about statistics data?
There's plenty of other stuff out there that's not always the easiest to find / use / etc. I ...
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How does Disease differ from Health?
Proposal: Disease
How is this any different than the Health proposal?
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Why do we need a CFD site?
Proposal: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
At the moment, the Computational Science stack exchange site is in beta and has 35 questions tagged with fluid-dynamics, there is already a cfd tag ...
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Proposals to merge Public Health and Epidemiology with other Area51 prosposals
@shimmy asks: Why not merge the [Public Health & Epidemiology proposal] with [the Health proposal] which has twice as votes as this one?
note: @shimmy asked this in the announcement section of ...
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Audience of 'Computational Fluid Dynamics'?
Proposal: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Who is the audience of this proposed site?
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Why not call it oceanography?
According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanography Marine Sciences is a synonimous of oceanography, so why not call this forum oceanography. Maybe it's can attract more people ?
The ...
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Merge Neuroinformatics with the existing Cognitive Science proposal?
Proposal: Neuroinformatics
I have brought this topic up on Meta.cogsci, and we would like to know if joining the proposed Neuroinformatics with the existing Cognitive Science beta would be amenable?
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New Proposal: Memorization Techniques [closed]
I've been reading Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer and feel that a place for questions and answers about memorization techniques would be terrific. I read The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne and ...
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Please can a moderator delete my “unregistered user” commitment so I can register using my StackExchange account?
Proposal: Chemistry
I accidentally committed to the above proposal as an "unregistered user" (see this question). There seems to be no way for me to undo this. Since this proposal will likely go into ...
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How is human system sustainability different from environmental system sustainability? [closed]
Proposal: Sustainable Living
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How will this help?
Proposal: Data
Not to be a downer or anything, but how will a SE site help you find data? Seriously, who is going to know "How many people have immigrated from Canada to the U.S., and vice versa, ...
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Who is this for?
Proposal: Information Retrieval and Search Engines
Is there a clearer definition that would be possible? Right now it sounds like the user base is people creating search engines. Is this right? I ...
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Better wording for the description?
Proposal: Information Retrieval and Search Engines
Wouldn't it be better not to use Google's mission statement in the framing of this proposed site?
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What makes a good question?
I have been reading comments in closed questions, and I have to admit that at this point I have no clue how to compose a good question.
I took to boosting this proposal because I think that CQA is a ...
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What's are some options to handle query spelling mistakes? [closed]
Proposal: Information Retrieval and Search Engines
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Aren't questions on research-related Q&A sites often paper surveys in disguise? Discuss!
Trying to establish a Q&A community on a research field, an interesting open point for me is whether many questions related to the research field are simply questions that can be answered by doing ...
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Will we need MathJax/any other formatting here? [closed]
/Proposal: Chemistry
Related: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/128238/adding-mathjax-to-specific-questions-only/128240#128240
Most SE sites use MathJax for mathematical formatting. Will ...
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Are the sample questions appropriate for the tone of a Natural Capital online community [closed]
Proposal: Natural Capital
I've started questions based on actual questions that have been fielded to me via email on my specific project. However, they might be to tool-centric. I'm not certain how ...
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Chemicals in the food that we consume
We consume food which contains lot many chemicals, excluding carbohydrate / protein / vitamins, which a lay man can easily understand. What about discussing these aspects in the propose forum.
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Should this just be called Neuroscience?
Proposal: Neuroinformatics
According to the INCF strategy overview:
There are three main directions where neuroinformatics has to be applied[2]:
the development of tools and databases for ...
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Computational Chemistry, official location?
Proposal: Chemistry
As many of you may know, or perhaps have already previously discussed, computational chemistry already resides in the 'Computational Sciences' community. I've just recently ...
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Computer science: the audience description is now wrong
Proposal: Computer Science
The title of the computer science proposal is now presentable, thank you. The site description has also been edited, but that edit threw out the baby with the bathwater. ...
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Is Behaviorism within our scope?
Proposal: Cognitive Sciences
Behaviorism has widely been regarded as an affront to Cognitive Psychology but many findings of Behaviorism are still extremely relevant to psychology today.
Are ...
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Is Data is a dupe of stats.SE?
@mbq suggested that Data may be a dupe of Statistical Analysis. Are these questions are really out of the scope of statistical analysis? To test this, I asked a question there which got closed for ...
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Why was the future studies proposal deleted, but less frequented and older proposals still exist?
I have no problem if too less traffic for this site, but there are proposals twice as old and not gaining any new followers or questions in the same period of nov-dec, who are still not deleted, like ...
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Would like to represent Neurorehabilitation
I'm a physician specializing in pain medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation. We work with stroke, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury patients. Wondering if there is room here ...
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You do realize that 'Libraries & Information Science' is not the same as 'Libraries', right?
Proposal: Library & Information Science
You'd have almost been better off merging Libraries with Books.
LIS deals more with the theory of how information is organized. Now, an MLS (Master of ...
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Has the NLP visual model been tested reliably, if so to what end? [closed]
Proposal: Cognitive Sciences
According to the NLP visual model fast flickers of the eyes in left/right and the 4 diagonal directions map to simple cues related to how a person is thinking. Thease are ...
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Have the needs of this proposal been met in other sites?
Proposal: Public Health & Epidemiology
There was always going to be a bit over overlap between the proposed Public Health & Epidemiology site and something like CrossValidated, which serves ...
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Mathematica proposal has disappeared
The mathematica proposal at 89 commitments has disappeared without warning or trace.
Why has it disappeared? And why without prior warning?
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Time to reach out to the floundering Linguistics SE and suggest a merger?
Proposals: Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics
I initially embraced the different focuses of Cognitive Science and Linguistics and committed to both proposals. Linguistics rightly claimed that many ...
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Scope of Computer Science (non-programming)
Proposal: Computer Science (Non-Programming)
I am having trouble with understanding the scope of this proposal. (Partially because of attempts to merge it with other CS proposals.) My first ...
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What should the real title of this proposal for beta be? [duplicate]
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The title “Computer Science (Non-Programming)”
Proposal: Computer Science (Non-Programming)
What should be the real title of this proposal? I know Computer Science ...
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The Computer Science proposal should be in the Science category
Proposal: Computer Science (Non-Programming)
I don't know how Computer Science ended up under Professional, but it clearly belongs to the Science category.
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The title “Computer Science (Non-Programming)”
Proposal: Computer Science (Non-Programming)
AFAIK “Computer Science (Non-Programming)” is the proposed title.
Writing “Non-Programming” sounds a bit absurd. Every branch of computer science is ...
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QIF: How to spread the word
Proposal: Quantum Information and Foundations
It seems like we're on a slow road at the moment. Commitments are trickling in steadily, but at this rate it'll take the better part of a year to enter ...
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Merge the various geoscience proposals?
Proposal: Geoscience
I believe we need a communal site for all the geoscience proposals. This site would cover multiple areas and multiple proposals into a larger site. Th Geoscience site would ...
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A common gateway for QI on stackexchange
Proposal: Quantum Information and Foundations
From the previous questions about the need for the how much of a subset this proposal is of other proposals, the arguments in favor of having a new ...
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Is it possible to drop out of a beta to commit to another site proposal?
I'd like to commit to the new Scientific Computing proposal, but the page says I'm committed to the maximum of three proposed sites. One of the sites is in public beta. I really don't have any ...
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Why a separate “Quantum Information” site?
Proposal: Quantum Information and Foundations
I've just noticed this proposal and I am slightly confused as to why people consider it necessary. It seems to me that the scope of this site is entirely ...
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Who should Quantum Information and Foundations site be for?
Proposal: Quantum Information and Foundations
The current description is: "for research level questions in the areas of quantum information science and quantum foundations." Do you think this is too ...
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“Scientific Computing” vs. “Computational Science” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the options for naming the Computational science proposal
Proposal: Scientific Computing (was Computational Science)
The more I think about the name change, ...
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How can we better serve the CS community on Stack Overflow?
Proposal: Computer Science (Non-Programming)
Gotta admit, I see the point of this. From the look of the proposed questions so far, this would be a solid resource for CS students, who may well find ...
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How about a new arXiv repo only for QIC? [closed]
Proposal: Quantum Information and Foundations
It seems very unbalanced to me that, for example, Computational Complexity has his own repo and QIC does not. In the first one, you find at most 2 or 3 ...
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Why did the name change from “Computational Science” to “Scientific Computing”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the options for naming the Computational science proposal
Proposal: Scientific Computing (was Computational Science)
I preferred the original name. In any ...
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A subset of TheoreticalPhysics.SE? [closed]
Proposal: Quantum Information and Foundations
Why not ask such questions on Theoretical Physics SE?
Every research-level quantum information question is perfectly on topic on TP.SE. Moreover, in ...
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Would methodology review be a subject of this site?
The Code Review SE allows programmers to submit code snippets for peer review. Might the Economics SE offer a similar function? For example, one could submit a short and focused set of methods and ...
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What are the options for naming the Computational science proposal?
Update:
Based on the scattered arguments, discussions, and comments, the consensus seems to be to name this site:
"Computational Science" <-- header at the top
with a url of ...
