Stack Exchange — english.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (english.stackexchange.com) dataset of 92,898 users, 250,097 answer-collaboration edges, 130,631 questions, 293,544 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 english.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..

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The full graph has 92,898 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

92.9K
Nodes
250.1K
Edges
2.90e-05
Density
1.1K
Components
-0.08836
Assortativity
0.6%
Reciprocity
48.2K
Bridges
Most central nodes
31190.0137
40700.00873
446190.00591
14200.00431
610750.00424
1253880.00406
22700.00402
539660.00398
6830.00393
3050.00353
Content metrics

424,175 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 3.401 ± 8.62
min -30max 822
view countμ 2.9K ± 22.7K
min 0max 2.3M
answer countμ 0.692 ± 1.604
min 0max 124
comment countμ 2.229 ± 3.109
min 0max 69
8.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
worduseenglishquotlikemeaningwordsexamplesentencethinkphrasecorrectpeopledonmeanmeanswayquestiontimeknowusagecommonpersonverbtermcaseformcontextdifferentgoodnounsenselanguagewantamericandictionaryanswerdifferencesaidfindprobablydoesnfollowingthingsusuallythingnewrightcomework
Topic clusters

Topic 0

pronounce
pronunciation
vowel
sound
syllable
consonant
english
word

Topic 1

plural
singular
noun
apple
form
uncountable
datum
countable

Topic 2

comma
dash
colon
semicolon
clause
sentence
list
independent

Topic 3

verb
adverb
infinitive
gerund
modal
adverbial
verbs
need

Topic 4

accent
american
english
british
dialect
speak
regional
rhotic

Topic 5

tense
past
present
future
perfect
shall
verb
participle

Topic 6

copyright
sentence
grammatically
correct
start
pattern
uppercase
display

Topic 7

email
mail
dear
letter
formal
send
regard
address

Topic 8

capitalize
capital
capitalization
trademark
letter
title
lowercase
noun

Topic 9

cheap
good
food
think
adjective
meaning
logical
real

Topic 10

leather
game
fly
player
sport
play
team
rpg

Topic 11

week
monday
time
minute
tuesday
day
hour
night
Show all 73 topics

Topic 12

possessive
apostrophe
possession
genitive
end
beginner
car
james

Topic 13

price
shop
worth
store
stock
sell
market
pricing

Topic 14

difference
unbalance
imbalance
null
apple
integer
extent
contrast

Topic 15

moon
hook
fish
bang
catch
slap
crack
troll

Topic 16

mark
quote
quotation
punctuation
exclamation
inside
question
end

Topic 17

difference
goal
target
settle
interchangeable
value
interchangeably
arrange

Topic 18

gender
woman
female
pronoun
man
male
feminine
sex

Topic 19

thank
cheer
kindly
welcome
polite
gratitude
reply
response

Topic 20

book
question
answer
self
study
ask
category
kind

Topic 21

friend
couple
daughter
son
brother
sibling
cousin
sister

Topic 22

language
french
latin
germanic
proto
old
german
indo

Topic 23

gay
offensive
insult
black
retarded
people
word
ginger

Topic 24

parenthesis
bracket
brace
parenthetical
smiley
space
insertion
period

Topic 25

listen
sound
audio
concert
hear
music
beep
refrain

Topic 26

care
synonym
mean
meaning
kid
mind
actionable
pay

Topic 27

movie
watch
film
cinema
actor
subtitle
play
series

Topic 28

train
car
bus
road
drive
backseat
seat
engine

Topic 29

compound
hyphen
hyphenate
adjective
split
layer
word
modifier

Topic 30

party
palin
republican
president
reagan
sarah
obama
congress

Topic 31

god
sneeze
agnostic
bless
religious
peace
atheist
live

Topic 32

phrase
come
fast
mean
rat
meaning
guinea
expression

Topic 33

preposition
prepositional
end
absolve
rule
home
charge
free

Topic 34

prerequisite
purpose
agreement
surprising
limit
profit
task
ancillary

Topic 35

contraction
formal
contract
writing
write
speech
apostrophe
informal

Topic 36

acronym
abbreviation
initialism
faq
laser
captcha
pronounce
scuba

Topic 37

antonym
opposite
unreasonable
ignore
antonyms
sequitur
senseless
moral

Topic 38

year
month
earn
january
yearling
annum
yearly
badge

Topic 39

user
instability
gui
domain
program
server
connect
request

Topic 40

pronoun
object
accusative
subject
case
clause
dative
nominative

Topic 41

university
graduate
professor
course
student
phd
college
teacher

Topic 42

corpus
contemporary
american
coca
incidence
national
bnc
british

Topic 43

writing
pullum
jargon
technical
elements
write
yes
formal

Topic 44

company
weight
service
machine
confirm
operator
oversee
choice

Topic 45

mile
speed
velocity
rate
kilo
orthogonal
vector
byte

Topic 46

impolite
skeptical
cynical
bad
child
person
empathetic
evil

Topic 47

shame
bare
bear
mean
piracy
carry
patience
bearing

Topic 48

piss
tit
breast
toilet
prostitute
monroe
marilyn
derriere

Topic 49

thesis
peer
journal
paper
require
publication
treaty
sentence

Topic 50

business
application
google
result
systems
build
word
plug

Topic 51

drink
soda
tonic
gin
eat
pop
food
concoct

Topic 52

use
usage
spend
phoenix
execution
versus
egg
necessary

Topic 53

correct
int
amend
commit
append
text
split
argument

Topic 54

phone
cell
signal
mobile
battery
device
redundant
comparison

Topic 55

spell
spelling
checker
check
license
spelt
spellcheck
gpl

Topic 56

accord
till
past
dictionary
tense
entry
jump
present

Topic 57

article
definite
rule
indefinite
standing
behalf
book
noun

Topic 58

work
talk
rita
reliable
resign
smart
website
boss

Topic 59

passive
voice
active
stative
action
participle
window
foo

Topic 60

cake
cook
piece
eat
cooking
bake
china
shell

Topic 61

career
willingness
anti
thinking
cap
near
think
quantify

Topic 62

write
wise
interface
disc
writing
style
technical
spell

Topic 63

origin
smoke
holy
manhattan
jive
origins
cross
idiocracy

Topic 64

lousy
conservativism
lice
irony
stupid
sardonic
debase
ironic

Topic 65

subjunctive
mood
indicative
wish
form
past
verb
modern

Topic 66

upgrade
patch
update
evolution
install
version
edition
downgrade

Topic 67

space
font
typewriter
period
spacing
unit
typeset
slash

Topic 68

discretion
notably
viewer
baker
count
hunch
happen
mean

Topic 69

bag
coin
paper
pocket
dollar
plastic
purse
pocketbook

Topic 70

visa
language
lingua
franca
english
russian
letter
native

Topic 71

bill
invoice
client
customer
consumer
check
service
refurbish

Topic 72

parthian
origin
parting
dog
phrase
blow
shot
betsy
Top hashtags
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Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 1.5M records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-english-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
1,502,395
Nodes
92,898
Edges
250,097 (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
2009/2024 (2000s, 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, 429.7 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 — english.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-english-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 — english.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-english-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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