Stack Exchange — dsp.stackexchange.com
The content of dsp.stackexchange.com (https://dsp.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 192,811 rows: 62,893 posts (27,618 questions, 34,859 answers, 205 tag wiki excerpts, 205 tag wikis, 4 posts of type 6 and 2 posts of type 7) and 129,918 comments, written between 24 November 2009 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 59,547 user accounts, 176,529 votes, 86,646 badges awarded, 528 tags, 231,654 post revisions and 7,776 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 429 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-dsp.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 192,811 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-dsp-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
- 192,811
- Nodes
- 192,811
- Edges
- 164,777 (directed)
- 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/details/stackexchange link checked
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 81.8 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 (192,811 rows), users (59,547 rows), x_votes (176,529 rows), x_badges (86,646 rows), x_tags (528 rows), x_post_history (231,654 rows), x_post_links (7,776 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 — dsp.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-dsp.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — dsp.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-dsp.echo.directory/.