Stack Exchange — langdev.stackexchange.com
Stack ExchangeAcademicEngagementKnowledge sharingQ&ASocial graphSoftware development The content of langdev.stackexchange.com (https://langdev.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 11,451 rows: 3,466 posts (728 questions, 2,259 answers, 235 tag wiki excerpts, 235 tag wikis and 9 posts of type 6) and 7,985 comments, written between 16 May 2023 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 3,657 user accounts, 25,814 votes, 6,553 badges awarded, 276 tags, 9,736 post revisions and 216 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 13 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-langdev.echo.directory
Analytics
Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-langdev-stackexchange-com- Authors
- Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Year
- 2024
- Source paper
- Stack Exchange Data Dump
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Records
- 12,050
- Nodes
- 413
- Edges
- 1,580 (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
- 2023/2024 (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, 5.1 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 (11,451 rows), users (3,657 rows), x_votes (25,814 rows), x_badges (6,553 rows), x_tags (276 rows), x_post_history (9,736 rows), x_post_links (216 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 — langdev.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-langdev.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — langdev.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-langdev.echo.directory/.