Stack Exchange — cseducators.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (cseducators.stackexchange.com) dataset of 1,478 users, 3,504 answer-collaboration edges, 1,208 questions, 4,690 answers, collected by Stack Exchange, Inc. via the annual Stack Exchange Data Dump. Each record contains user nodes (reputation, badge counts, vote history), directed weighted edges (answerer→asker, weight=answer score, count=interactions, accepted=bool), post text, tag distribution. User collaboration network from cseducators.stackexchange.com — directed weighted graph where edges represent knowledge-sharing relationships (A answered B's question), with edge weight reflecting answer quality. Enables prestige hierarchy, community detection, and expertise flow analysis.. Suitable for expertise network analysis, reputation systems, community detection, knowledge flow, PageRank-based authority ranking, Q&A platform dynamics..

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The full graph has 1,478 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

1.5K
Nodes
3.5K
Edges
1.61e-03
Density
6
Components
-0.2443
Assortativity
5.8%
Reciprocity
801
Bridges
Most central nodes
270.1164
2040.07109
1500.06364
12930.06229
2830.05823
760.05281
580.04062
43380.02911
11060.0264
11440.02437
Content metrics

5,898 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 5.382 ± 10.373
min -5max 229
view countμ 307.506 ± 2.2K
min 0max 92.2K
answer countμ 0.795 ± 2.387
min 0max 31
comment countμ 2.318 ± 3.377
min 0max 42
9.1
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.9
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
studentscodelikeprogrammingusedonquotlanguagethinkworktimecoursegoodneedwaycomputerstudentquestionknowthingsanswerclassexamplelearnteachingwantprogramteachproblemdifferentlearningpeoplelevellanguagespointjavafindbetterunderstandwritesciencedatanewhelpactuallylotquestionsstartetcthing
Topic clusters

Topic 0

answer
question
thank
welcome
analogy
comment
think
hope

Topic 1

student
teacher
learn
think
teach
work
thing
course

Topic 2

language
python
programming
scratch
learn
program
teach
like

Topic 3

file
command
ide
line
linux
system
use
unix

Topic 4

algorithm
sort
problem
number
boolean
true
graph
example

Topic 5

pointer
reference
loop
memory
array
object
variable
pass

Topic 6

test
student
lab
work
grade
assignment
pair
code

Topic 7

science
computer
course
engineering
degree
teach
software
field

Topic 8

html
css
web
javascript
page
development
teach
style

Topic 9

object
interface
class
dog
inheritance
method
public
example

Topic 10

git
control
github
version
command
commit
repository
use

Topic 11

code
debug
write
student
test
good
work
time
Show all 14 topics

Topic 12

book
tag
textbook
question
resource
use
read
material

Topic 13

functional
language
haskell
programming
lisp
paradigm
scheme
function
Top hashtags
#include45
#139
#234
#318
#821211
#define11
#410
#region8
#sidebar7
#396
#endif6
#ifdef6
#65
#q5
#04
#os4
#53
#invariant3
#pipe3
#3332

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-cseducators-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2025
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 (by post date) (CC-BY-SA-2.5 AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
21,398
Nodes
1,478
Edges
3,504 (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
2017/2024 (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/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 10.2 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

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_2025,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2025},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/download/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2025). Stack Exchange — cseducators.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-cseducators-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — cseducators.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-cseducators-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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