Stack Exchange — engineering.stackexchange.com
The content of engineering.stackexchange.com (https://engineering.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 108,430 rows: 37,688 posts (16,173 questions, 21,229 answers, 139 tag wiki excerpts, 139 tag wikis and 8 posts of type 6) and 70,742 comments, written between 20 January 2015 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 40,577 user accounts, 95,211 votes, 49,218 badges awarded, 480 tags, 120,563 post revisions and 985 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 126 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-engineering.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 9,421 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-engineering-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
- 124,979
- Nodes
- 9,421
- Edges
- 17,986 (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
- 2015/2024 (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, 41.5 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 (108,430 rows), users (40,577 rows), x_votes (95,211 rows), x_badges (49,218 rows), x_tags (480 rows), x_post_history (120,563 rows), x_post_links (985 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 — engineering.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-engineering.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — engineering.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-engineering.echo.directory/.