Stack Exchange — opendata.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (opendata.stackexchange.com) dataset of 4,162 users, 5,921 answer-collaboration edges, 6,180 questions, 7,265 answers, collected by Stack Exchange, Inc. via the annual Stack Exchange Data Dump. Each record contains user nodes (reputation, badge counts, vote history), directed weighted edges (answerer→asker, weight=answer score, count=interactions, accepted=bool), post text, tag distribution. User collaboration network from opendata.stackexchange.com — directed weighted graph where edges represent knowledge-sharing relationships (A answered B's question), with edge weight reflecting answer quality. Enables prestige hierarchy, community detection, and expertise flow analysis.. Suitable for expertise network analysis, reputation systems, community detection, knowledge flow, PageRank-based authority ranking, Q&A platform dynamics..

#Expertise network#Open data#Reputation#Stack exchange data dump

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The full graph has 4,162 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

4.2K
Nodes
5.9K
Edges
3.42e-04
Density
226
Components
-0.114
Assortativity
0.6%
Reciprocity
2.7K
Bridges
Most central nodes
16520.02019
7540.01754
10520.01081
15110.00985
2080.00889
330.00865
70.00697
2760.00529
102350.00481
14530.00457
Content metrics

13,445 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 2.917 ± 4.325
min -4max 174
view countμ 377.079 ± 3.8K
min 0max 300K
answer countμ 0.541 ± 1.138
min 0max 29
comment countμ 0.907 ± 1.565
min 0max 46
9.2
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.9
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
dataopendatasetlikeusefindquotlookingapiinformationavailableneeddatabasequestionknowlistdatasetsexamplewanttimesourcefiledownloaddonanswersearchfoundlinkcodeetcfreesetnumberpublicformatfileswaygooddifferentworkcensusthinkpagequerystateaccesscountrylooklevelsite
Topic clusters

Topic 0

word
english
language
corpus
dictionary
text
list
dataset

Topic 1

drug
openfda
fda
api
ndc
query
adverse
array

Topic 2

dataset
image
series
learning
face
set
machine
time

Topic 3

census
population
county
income
area
datum
zip
acs

Topic 4

license
open
government
datum
data
agency
work
public

Topic 5

wikidata
wdt
item
wikibase
query
wikipedia
label
sparql

Topic 6

stock
financial
company
datum
price
finance
quandl
currency

Topic 7

weather
temperature
precipitation
forecast
climate
datum
station
noaa

Topic 8

hospital
medical
disease
patient
health
datum
dataset
medicare

Topic 9

college
student
scorecard
school
institution
cohort
year
education

Topic 10

player
game
football
team
soccer
sport
league
match

Topic 11

api
error
query
result
request
return
limit
parameter
Show all 24 topics

Topic 12

mimic
iii
patient
table
admission
itemid
icu
select

Topic 13

boundary
shapefile
postcode
district
shape
map
find
county

Topic 14

datum
open
api
available
file
set
use
download

Topic 15

csv
file
format
json
rdf
table
datum
excel

Topic 16

osm
openstreetmap
map
tag
overpass
coordinate
geojson
maps

Topic 17

elevation
lidar
resolution
soil
water
global
map
datum

Topic 18

traffic
road
transportation
train
datum
station
route
speed

Topic 19

twitter
tweet
network
user
social
node
graph
dataset

Topic 20

car
vehicle
crash
accident
driver
traffic
model
database

Topic 21

election
state
voter
vote
presidential
polling
political
congress

Topic 22

ckan
socrata
error
fri
lib
jan
open
api

Topic 23

crime
police
criminal
fbi
city
report
incident
datum
Top hashtags
#124
#223
#data15
#311
#6011
#select11
#gid10
#629
#48
#468
#defaultview8
#services8
#file7
#page7
#q7
#cities5
#pip5
#property5
#search5
#this5

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-opendata-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2025
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 (by post date) (CC-BY-SA-2.5 AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
32,551
Nodes
4,162
Edges
5,921 (directed)
Nodes are
user (Stack Exchange account)
Edges are
answer collaboration (A answered B's question)
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
Text corpus
question titles, post bodies, comment text, tag names
Languages
en
Collected
2013/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://archive.org/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 12.6 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{stackexchange_2025,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/download/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2025). Stack Exchange — opendata.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-opendata-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — opendata.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-opendata-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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