Stack Exchange — history.stackexchange.com
The content of history.stackexchange.com (https://history.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 181,574 rows: 44,163 posts (14,864 questions, 28,152 answers, 569 tag wiki excerpts, 569 tag wikis, 5 posts of type 6 and 4 posts of type 7) and 137,411 comments, written between 5 May 2011 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 45,851 user accounts, 457,693 votes, 96,478 badges awarded, 856 tags, 175,040 post revisions and 2,425 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 444 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-history.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 181,574 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Topic 0
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3
Topic 4
Topic 5
Topic 6
Topic 7
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-history-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
- 181,574
- Nodes
- 181,574
- Edges
- 165,563 (directed)
- Collected
- 2011/2024 (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, 89.1 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 (181,574 rows), users (45,851 rows), x_votes (457,693 rows), x_badges (96,478 rows), x_tags (856 rows), x_post_history (175,040 rows), x_post_links (2,425 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 — history.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-history.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — history.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-history.echo.directory/.