Stack Exchange — space.stackexchange.com
The content of space.stackexchange.com (https://space.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 191,285 rows: 48,869 posts (18,866 questions, 28,341 answers, 824 tag wiki excerpts, 824 tag wikis, 11 posts of type 6 and 3 posts of type 7) and 142,416 comments, written between 16 July 2013 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 39,296 user accounts, 436,676 votes, 90,571 badges awarded, 1,201 tags, 180,404 post revisions and 18,352 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 1,010 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-space.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 191,285 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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Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-space-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
- 191,285
- Nodes
- 191,285
- Edges
- 170,757 (directed)
- Collected
- 2013/2024 (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, 76.1 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 (191,285 rows), users (39,296 rows), x_votes (436,676 rows), x_badges (90,571 rows), x_tags (1,201 rows), x_post_history (180,404 rows), x_post_links (18,352 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 — space.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-space.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — space.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-space.echo.directory/.