Stack Exchange — codereview.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (codereview.stackexchange.com) dataset of 47,392 users, 100,897 answer-collaboration edges, 77,533 questions, 121,846 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 codereview.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 47,392 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

47.4K
Nodes
100.9K
Edges
4.49e-05
Density
942
Components
-0.04479
Assortativity
0.6%
Reciprocity
23.2K
Bridges
Most central nodes
583600.00547
285390.00279
583410.00272
905010.00247
1539170.00234
426320.00215
372540.00198
237880.00196
468400.00179
158300.00177
Content metrics

199,379 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 3.78 ± 4.717
min -52max 370
view countμ 947.472 ± 5.3K
min 0max 471.1K
answer countμ 0.611 ± 1.037
min 0max 20
comment countμ 1.728 ± 2.45
min 0max 41
10.9
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
13.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
returnintstringnewpublicfunctionampcodeclassvalueusevarselfdatavoidlistnullprivatelikeendarraytruemethodtypestaticstdaddfalsesetobjectcasefilelengthresultnumberdefinputneedsystemwaydonkeyconsttexttimeusernodeprintsizediv
Topic clusters

Topic 0

var
function
jquery
element
javascript
object
code
use

Topic 1

const
char
int
return
include
typename
string
use

Topic 2

delphi
parse
google
web
display
parser
language
social

Topic 3

thread
lock
queue
public
void
socket
private
new

Topic 4

class
public
new
method
connection
type
interface
static

Topic 5

linq
var
item
result
product
select
foreach
new

Topic 6

date
day
month
datetime
year
hour
minute
ago

Topic 7

define
map
defn
car
list
val
seq
tag

Topic 8

challenge
calculator
puzzle
string
algorithm
number
word
split

Topic 9

test
assert
public
obj
code
method
state
static

Topic 10

end
ruby
def
rail
method
class
test
like

Topic 11

def
word
print
python
list
return
number
import
Show all 28 topics

Topic 12

echo
file
script
bash
git
directory
command
shell

Topic 13

controller
model
view
viewmodel
mvc
public
wizard
class

Topic 14

game
player
card
print
int
def
board
win

Topic 15

array
ternary
operator
value
return
newvalue
null
key

Topic 16

xml
element
def
import
schema
lat
param
entity

Topic 17

prime
number
factor
isprime
sum
divisible
euler
sieve

Topic 18

node
null
head
tree
list
return
struct
root

Topic 19

exception
catch
throw
error
try
code
block
method

Topic 20

image
height
width
uiimage
self
int
alloc
frame

Topic 21

query
sql
pdo
database
mysql
function
array
table

Topic 22

refactore
refactor
code
design
pattern
class
allcomplete
orient

Topic 23

table
null
select
join
primary
key
foreign
references

Topic 24

salt
key
byte
encrypt
password
cipher
encryption
decrypt

Topic 25

dir
monad
directory
haskell
import
path
let
string

Topic 26

print
def
file
python
import
line
elif
filename

Topic 27

matrix
row
col
distance
int
end
double
column
Top hashtags
#include6.2K
#define1.7K
#endif538
#region524
#endregion492
#ifndef345
#import290
#pragma274
#print256
#if240
#fff211
#1188
#2187
#t171
#ifdef151
#content124
#3115
#else105
#container91
#main89

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 624.9K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-codereview-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
624,942
Nodes
47,392
Edges
100,897 (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
2008/2024 (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/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 485.0 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 — codereview.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-codereview-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 — codereview.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-codereview-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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