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A few months ago I posted a few interesting bits of research on data from SEDE. It was fairly well-received, so I figured I'd do some more analysis. I might make this a weekly thing.

I decided to start with tags. This post will show some data relating to the most used tags, the popularity of posts based on the tags they use, and the most common combinations of tags.

All of this data is from April 6, 2020.

Most used

  1. : 9540 (84.16%)
  2. : 1750 (15.44%)
  3. : 1362 (12.01%)
  4. : 1087 (9.59%)
  5. : 1069 (9.43%)
  6. : 810 (7.15%)
  7. : 680 (6.00%)
  8. : 564 (4.98%)
  9. : 530 (4.68%)
  10. : 480 (4.23%)
  11. : 474 (4.18%)
  12. : 395 (3.48%)
  13. : 354 (3.12%)
  14. : 307 (2.71%)
  15. : 303 (2.67%)
  16. : 290 (2.56%)
  17. : 287 (2.53%)
  18. : 278 (2.45%)
  19. : 274 (2.42%)
  20. : 272 (2.40%)

Highest average score

Note: Only contains tags with at least 10 questions

  1. : +83.0 (15647 views)
  2. : +82.9 (16908 views)
  3. : +59.9 (8444 views)
  4. : +50.0 (13467 views)
  5. : +49.1 (10966 views)
  6. : +48.9 (7895 views)
  7. : +48.0 (53586 views)
  8. : +44.3 (11880 views)
  9. : +41.5 (7826 views)
  10. : +39.9 (11323 views)
  11. : +39.8 (10270 views)
  12. : +38.7 (9483 views)
  13. : +36.3 (6072 views)
  14. : +31.8 (7838 views)
  15. : +31.5 (5103 views)
  16. : +31.2 (1907 views)
  17. : +31.0 (8131 views)
  18. : +30.7 (2908 views)
  19. : +29.9 (4293 views)
  20. : +29.8 (3398 views)

Most common combinations

  1. : 1658
  2. : 1214
  3. : 1024
  4. : 1008
  5. : 625
  6. : 527
  7. : 508
  8. : 457
  9. : 447
  10. : 328
  11. : 288
  12. : 262
  13. : 254
  14. : 248
  15. : 243
  16. : 232
  17. : 229
  18. : 227
  19. : 224
  20. : 220

Most common combinations (compared to individual usage)

Note: Only contains tags with at least 10 questions

  1. : 5 (33.33%, 100.00%)
  2. : 12 (30.77%, 46.15%)
  3. : 19 (25.00%, 57.58%)
  4. : 5 (23.81%, 62.50%)
  5. : 13 (24.53%, 39.39%)
  6. : 1658 (17.38%, 94.74%)
  7. : 9 (22.50%, 37.50%)
  8. : 5 (21.74%, 33.33%)
  9. : 24 (16.44%, 54.55%)
  10. : 30 (15.15%, 73.17%)
  11. : 50 (16.50%, 40.65%)
  12. : 73 (20.62%, 26.84%)
  13. : 11 (16.92%, 36.67%)
  14. : 202 (18.58%, 29.71%)
  15. : 1214 (12.73%, 89.13%)
  16. : 2 (18.18%, 28.57%)
  17. : 3 (12.50%, 75.00%)
  18. : 4 (19.05%, 23.53%)
  19. : 39 (14.39%, 37.14%)
  20. : 46 (11.65%, 92.00%)

Interesting Takeaways

  • Code golf makes up over 84% of the challenges on this site
  • Despite now being strongly discouraged, , , and have a surprisingly high average score
  • 92% of all underhanded challenges were popularity contests
  • A few popular questions, such as this one, heavily influence the average score of some tags like
  • Of all the top 20 most often combined tags, and are the only ones to not include
  • Just 11 out of 277 tags have not been used in combination with
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    \$\begingroup\$ Which 11 haven't been used in combination with code-golf? I'm going to post challenges with these tags. \$\endgroup\$
    – user92069
    Apr 3, 2020 at 1:47
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    \$\begingroup\$ I don't think that popularity contests have been officially banned, they have just fallen heavily out of favor. \$\endgroup\$
    – Wheat Wizard Mod
    Apr 3, 2020 at 2:01
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    \$\begingroup\$ @petStorm king-of-the-hill, atomic-code-golf, code-trolling, golf-cpu, proof-golf, code-shuffleboard, challenge-writing, showcase, prelude, ast-golf, and box-256 \$\endgroup\$
    – Rydwolf Programs
    Apr 3, 2020 at 13:24
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    \$\begingroup\$ I find the [math] [number] tag combination a bit worrying... \$\endgroup\$
    – the default.
    Apr 6, 2020 at 7:08
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    \$\begingroup\$ @mypronounismonicareinstate I should post a question with the tags math number integer arithmetic number-theory \$\endgroup\$
    – Rydwolf Programs
    Apr 6, 2020 at 15:12
  • \$\begingroup\$ @RedwolfPrograms I've paired code-golf with code-shuffleboard. So, 10 tags left? \$\endgroup\$
    – user92069
    Apr 14, 2020 at 4:09
  • \$\begingroup\$ @petStorm I suppose so. It might be a bit hard to pair some of the remaining ones, like code-golf and code-trolling. \$\endgroup\$
    – Rydwolf Programs
    Apr 14, 2020 at 14:36
  • \$\begingroup\$ @RedwolfPrograms It should be quite easy to make a tips for golfing in Prelude. \$\endgroup\$
    – user92069
    Apr 14, 2020 at 14:37
  • \$\begingroup\$ So, what do you do? Change the part that says Just 11 out of 277 tags? \$\endgroup\$
    – user92069
    Apr 14, 2020 at 14:38
  • \$\begingroup\$ @petStorm I think just keep everything the same (as I'd probably have to update everything else, too, to keep it accurate), and maybe completely update it once a month or something like that. \$\endgroup\$
    – Rydwolf Programs
    Apr 14, 2020 at 16:26
  • \$\begingroup\$ Could you post a link to the Meta post about popularity contests no longer being allowed? I had a great question in mind for that tag. \$\endgroup\$
    – ouflak
    Apr 16, 2020 at 15:12
  • \$\begingroup\$ @ouflak It seems popularity-contests are still allowed, just not recommended. \$\endgroup\$
    – Rydwolf Programs
    Apr 16, 2020 at 18:54
  • \$\begingroup\$ @ouflak If it is also tagged code-golf, awesome! \$\endgroup\$
    – user92069
    Apr 22, 2020 at 6:08

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