4.10.1 Top new questions this week

4.10.1.1 What are some common issues with fitting functions to data?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139038/what-are-some-common-issues-with-fitting-functions-to-data

 
Mathematica has numerous functions designed to, or capable of, fitting known functions, and finding unknown functions to match data sets. What are some common issues that come with finding those fits? 
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- asked by Feyre (20 votes), answered by Feyre (21 votes)

4.10.1.2 Notebook's TaggingRules inherit too much

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139017/notebooks-taggingrules-inherit-too-much

 
Bug introduced in V10.4 or earlier and persisting through 11.0.1 
 
 
[CASE:3852725] was created 
 
[...] I have forwarded an incident report to our developers with the information you provided.  ...
 

- asked by Kuba (14 votes), answered by Kuba (3 votes)

4.10.1.3 Is ExportString defective in V11?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138932/is-exportstring-defective-in-v11

 
Mathematica doesn't do the best job of exporting figures with shading or transparency to vector graphics formats such as PDF. 
 
A common trick employed here and elsewhere on the web to workaround this  ...
 

- asked by Quantum_Oli 11votes

4.10.1.4 Commands to stop and continue evaluation without Debugger

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139377/commands-to-stop-and-continue-evaluation-without-debugger

 
I would like to stop the evaluation somehwere at a specifiy line in a notebook. 
Then I could for example check the state of some variables. 
 
After that I would like to continue the evaluation from the  ...
 

- asked by lio (10 votes), answered by Szabolcs (9 votes)

4.10.1.5 How am I misusing EvenQ, or, how are EvenQ and (Mod[2,#]==0)& differently evaluated?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/139281/how-am-i-misusing-evenq-or-how-are-evenq-and-mod2-0-differently-evalua

 
While working on a problem, I was using EvenQ in a RegionPlot.  I came across this interesting case (simplified here for specificity).  I expected to see a bunch of stripes, but got nothing: 
 
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- asked by Piquan (10 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (9 votes)

4.10.1.6 Partition a list by count of a number

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138905/partition-a-list-by-count-of-a-number

 
I want to take this list when the 2 appear 3 times 
 
SeedRandom[1] 
list = RandomChoice[{.2, .5, .3} -> {1, 2, 3}, 20] 
 
 
 
{3,1,3,1,2,1,2,2,2,3,2,3,2,2,3,3,3,2,2,2} 
 
 
 
Hope to get {{3, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1,  ...
 

- asked by yode (10 votes), answered by Mr.Wizard (5 votes)

4.10.1.7 Why SciDraw can not handle the StreamPlot?

http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138926/why-scidraw-can-not-handle-the-streamplot

 
I find that the package SciDraw is suitable for preparing the figure in the thesis. When I use it to plot the line, it works well. For example 
 
<< SciDraw` 
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- asked by Ice0cean (10 votes), answered by Szabolcs (11 votes)