<p>User @amoeba pointed out to me that data about stats.SE is queryable from a simple API.</p>

<p>One way to re-frame this question is "Are more questions asked in a month than are answered?"</p>

<p>This plot answers that question resoundingly: "yes, answers are not keeping pace with questions." The difference between the yellow and blue lines reflects the number of unanswered questions in a month. <strong>For some recent years, that gap comprises more than a thousand questions.</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://data.stackexchange.com/stats/query/869988/questions-and-answers-per-month#graph" rel="nofollow noreferrer">You can see that the number of questions in a month continues to increase, while the number of questions with 1 or more answers in a month remains basically level.</a> (Only non-closed questions are reported here; see previous revisions of this post for other data.)</p>

<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mlare.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Mlare.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>For my part, I am taking an interest in the <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/neural-networks" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;neural-networks&#39;" rel="tag">neural-networks</a>, <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/xgboost" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;xgboost&#39;" rel="tag">xgboost</a> and <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/random-forest" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;random-forest&#39;" rel="tag">random-forest</a> questions &amp; attempting to write canonical answers which can be targets for duplicates. </p>
