Stack Exchange — ebooks.stackexchange.com
Stack ExchangeAcademicBooksEngagementEntertainmentKnowledge sharingQ&ASocial graph The content of ebooks.stackexchange.com (https://ebooks.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 8,068 rows: 4,104 posts (1,535 questions, 2,333 answers, 116 tag wiki excerpts, 116 tag wikis, 3 posts of type 6 and 1 post of type 7) and 3,964 comments, written between 18 December 2013 and 28 March 2024. Beside it are 15,138 user accounts, 17,782 votes, 15,553 badges awarded, 177 tags, 13,497 post revisions and 267 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 20 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-ebooks.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 1,375 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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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-ebooks-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
- 9,529
- Nodes
- 1,375
- Edges
- 1,813 (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
- 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, 4.6 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 (8,068 rows), users (15,138 rows), x_votes (17,782 rows), x_badges (15,553 rows), x_tags (177 rows), x_post_history (13,497 rows), x_post_links (267 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 — ebooks.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-ebooks.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — ebooks.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-ebooks.echo.directory/.