Stack Exchange — scicomp.stackexchange.com
Stack ExchangeAcademicEngagementKnowledge sharingQ&ASocial graphSoftware development The content of scicomp.stackexchange.com (https://scicomp.stackexchange.com/), a Stack Exchange question-and-answer site, as published in the Stack Exchange Data Dump of April 2024 on the Internet Archive. The posts table holds 79,411 rows: 25,744 posts (11,336 questions, 13,817 answers, 290 tag wiki excerpts, 290 tag wikis, 8 posts of type 6 and 3 posts of type 7) and 53,667 comments, written between 29 November 2011 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 35,693 user accounts, 108,582 votes, 49,553 badges awarded, 363 tags, 85,560 post revisions and 1,585 links between posts. Every answer keeps the question it answers and every comment the post it was written on, so the threads can be rebuilt. The Internet Archive item describes the dump as anonymised; the votes table names the voter in only 242 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-scicomp.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 5,509 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Topic 0
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3
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Topic 7
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-scicomp-stackexchange-com- Authors
- Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Year
- 2024
- Source paper
- Stack Exchange Data Dump
- License
- CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Records
- 90,868
- Nodes
- 5,509
- Edges
- 11,287 (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
- 2011/2024 (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/details/stackexchange link checked
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 35.7 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
- Data package
- Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (79,411 rows), users (35,693 rows), x_votes (108,582 rows), x_badges (49,553 rows), x_tags (363 rows), x_post_history (85,560 rows), x_post_links (1,585 rows).
- Structure
- Temporal (timestamped), Node attributes, Text, Threaded conversations
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_2024,
title = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
author = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
year = {2024},
month = {apr},
publisher = {Internet Archive},
url = {https://archive.org/details/stackexchange}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Stack Exchange, Inc. (2024). Stack Exchange — scicomp.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-scicomp.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — scicomp.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-scicomp.echo.directory/.