The Effects of Deprecation on Deep Learning Questions and Answers on Stack Overflow

This is a repository for research on how deprecation of Deep Learning libraries and APIs affects the quality of answers given on Stack Overflow.

The finds of this research is in overview.md.

Research Questions

1. What is the deprecation status of the deep learning libraries in our study?
2. Do users discuss the API versioning for the selected frameworks explicitly?
3. What are the DL API versioning issues that are discussed on SO?
4. How do Deep Learning API versioning issues affect the quality of answers in SO?

Future Studies

Do the users discuss the backward compatibility issues? [REF: An Empirical Analysis of Backward Compatibility in Machine Learning Systems]

Running the Code

Note that no relevant data has been included here at the instructions of the supervising professor.

All scripts can be run in a Python3 virtual environment. Be sure to install all required packages via: pip install -r requirements.txt.

Directory Structure

• scripts/ contains the scripts used to run the analysis. Scripts are organized by use case in directories
• documentation/ contains the results of the analysis as of December 23, 2020.
• models/ contains the lda, random forest, and linear regression models
• plots/ contains any generated graphs

The datasets are not included in this repository.