Stack Exchange — softwareengineering.stackexchange.com
Stack ExchangeAcademicEngagementKnowledge sharingQ&ASocial graphSoftware development The content of softwareengineering.stackexchange.com (https://softwareengineering.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 787,242 rows: 244,066 posts (63,423 questions, 178,628 answers, 984 tag wiki excerpts, 984 tag wikis, 10 posts of type 3, 31 posts of type 6 and 6 posts of type 7) and 543,176 comments, written between 1 August 2008 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 375,100 user accounts, 2,706,543 votes, 623,247 badges awarded, 1,678 tags, 653,560 post revisions and 15,682 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 1,145 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-softwareengineering.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 49,714 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-softwareengineering-stackexchange-com- Authors
- Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Year
- 2024
- Source paper
- Stack Exchange Data Dump
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-2.5 AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Records
- 851,808
- Nodes
- 49,714
- Edges
- 157,683 (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
- 2008/2024 (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/details/stackexchange link checked
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 346.2 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 (787,242 rows), users (375,100 rows), x_votes (2,706,543 rows), x_badges (623,247 rows), x_tags (1,678 rows), x_post_history (653,560 rows), x_post_links (15,682 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 — softwareengineering.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-softwareengineering.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — softwareengineering.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-softwareengineering.echo.directory/.