Stack Exchange — interpersonal.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (interpersonal.stackexchange.com) dataset of 4,538 users, 11,478 answer-collaboration edges, 3,929 questions, 14,381 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 interpersonal.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..

#Expertise network#Interpersonal skill#Reputation#Stack exchange data dump

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The full graph has 4,538 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

4.5K
Nodes
11.5K
Edges
5.57e-04
Density
36
Components
-0.1109
Assortativity
1.5%
Reciprocity
2.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
15990.0346
210670.02777
26250.02557
490.02072
31710.01807
40840.01763
3810.01719
590.01719
121010.01631
20120.01565
Content metrics

18,310 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 11.959 ± 23.56
min -11max 441
view countμ 1.3K ± 6.5K
min 0max 302.7K
answer countμ 0.785 ± 2.151
min 0max 24
comment countμ 1.919 ± 2.847
min 0max 27
8.5
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.1
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
donlikepeoplewanttimeknowwaythinkpersonfeelthingsquestiongoodaskquotneedworkhelpanswertellfriendfriendstalkgoingdoesnsituationtryrelationshipconversationproblemfindpointbetterthingrightletsaidaskingsurebestdidnunderstandlotusemaybehavingfamilyactuallydifferentprobably
Topic clusters

Topic 0

relationship
friend
want
like
feel
time
thing
tell

Topic 1

work
time
ask
like
know
job
people
need

Topic 2

people
like
person
feel
talk
conversation
way
know

Topic 3

roommate
dog
house
live
room
landlord
cat
neighbor

Topic 4

seat
people
bus
ask
train
person
rude
attendant

Topic 5

people
language
english
like
know
ask
question
person

Topic 6

parent
child
mother
family
brother
want
kid
father

Topic 7

eat
food
weight
vegan
like
restaurant
meal
want

Topic 8

money
gift
pay
want
like
need
buy
card

Topic 9

birthday
friend
invite
party
day
want
tell
celebrate

Topic 10

game
play
player
win
time
like
fun
friend

Topic 11

teacher
class
student
school
bully
ask
question
like
Show all 13 topics

Topic 12

car
drive
driver
road
ride
driving
time
safe
Top hashtags
#1114
#2104
#353
#3923
#418
#510
#metoo8
#14975
#64
#84
#29943
#5463
#5473
#general3
#t3
#18722
#72
#answer2
#comment6254_18582
#1041

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 58K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-interpersonal-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
58,037
Nodes
4,538
Edges
11,478 (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, 34.5 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 — interpersonal.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-interpersonal-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 — interpersonal.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-interpersonal-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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