<p>Using <a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stats/query/225883/question-stats-by-tag" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this script</a> I looked up some descriptive statistics for the specific tag names:</p>

<p>from beginning to 2019-29-09</p>

<pre><code>Name         N      views   score    closed    answers   accepted  answer    time to answer
                    median  avg      rate %    avg       rate %    rate %    median [minutes]

r            20665  454     2.8       9.6      1.0       36.2      69.8     235
python        2614  325     2.3      12.6      0.9       30.8      63.9     234
spss          1628  474     1.8       7.2      1.0       22.2      66.6     155
matlab        1175  583     1.8       9.7      1.0       39.7      72.9     232               
scikit-learn  1158  387     2.3      11.1      1.0       36.4      70.7     317
stata         1149  483     2.0       7.7      0.9       30.3      62.4     238
sas            614  397     2.0       8.5      1.0       31.1      67.1     190
tensorflow     445  256     2.2      15.7      0.9       33.0      65.2     527
excel          359  517     2.4      14.5      1.3       36.8      80.2     100 
jmp             47  336     2.2       2.1      1.0       38.3      78.7     448


total site  235918  196     1.6      20.4      1.0       20.4      41.9     179
including 
~ 1/3 deleted
</code></pre>

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<li><p>What we can see the easiest from these statistics is that the number of questions with the tag <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;r&#39;" rel="tag">r</a> is much larger than the others</p></li>
<li><p>However the amount of questions that get closed is smaller for the <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;r&#39;" rel="tag">r</a> tag. And this might indicate that the others are lower quality or more often off-topic (or they are similar and just end up differently in the statistics for other reasons)</p></li>
</ul>

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<p>With <a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stats/query/1119070/question-stats-by-tag?tag=%3Cr%3E" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this script</a> you can also observe the number of <em>deleted</em> posts:</p>

<pre><code>      Name    Total    Deleted   Deleted    Closed    % deleted
                       directly  after 
                                 Closing

r             38655    7387      10603      1988      46.5
python         5266    1004       1648       330      50.4
spss           3221     817        776       117      49.5
matlab         2656     702        779       114      55.8
stata          2298     434        715        88      50.0
scikit-learn   2166     511        497       128      46.5
sas            1312     292        406        52      53.2
tensorflow      976     185        346        70      54.4
excel           813     136        318        52      55.8
jmp              79      22         10         1      40.5

total        235918   52184      38450      9645      38.4
</code></pre>

<p>Which shows that the tags are similar in having around half the questions deleted, whereas the entire site has 38.4% of the posts deleted.</p>

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<p>I would say that based on the above numbers one might argue that for <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/python" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;python&#39;" rel="tag">python</a> it might be valuable to add a similar description as with the <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/r" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;r&#39;" rel="tag">r</a> tag. The number of questions are still reasonable large and the number of closed question indicates that the questions can be problematic. </p>

<p>However for <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/spss" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;spss&#39;" rel="tag">spss</a> it doesn't seem to be a problematic tag, and tags like <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/matlab" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;matlab&#39;" rel="tag">matlab</a> and others do not occur that often. With tags like <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/scikit-learn" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;scikit-learn&#39;" rel="tag">scikit-learn</a>, <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tensorflow" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;tensorflow&#39;" rel="tag">tensorflow</a> or <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/excel" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;excel&#39;" rel="tag">excel</a>, which have high close rates, one might also wonder whether it is due to the issue of being software specific or whether it is due to other reasons (as these tags may correlate with other issues, like being broad unclear or self-study).</p>
