Stack Exchange — quant.stackexchange.com
The content of quant.stackexchange.com (https://quant.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 122,786 rows: 48,764 posts (22,177 questions, 26,152 answers, 211 tag wiki excerpts, 211 tag wikis, 8 posts of type 6 and 5 posts of type 7) and 74,022 comments, written between 19 September 2010 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 50,776 user accounts, 172,517 votes, 68,823 badges awarded, 701 tags, 154,034 post revisions and 4,067 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 554 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-quant.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 122,786 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
Topic 8
Topic 9
Topic 10
Topic 11
Show all 17 topics
Topic 12
Topic 13
Topic 14
Topic 15
Topic 16
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-quant-stackexchange-com- Authors
- Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Year
- 2024
- Source paper
- Stack Exchange Data Dump
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-2.5 AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Records
- 122,786
- Nodes
- 122,786
- Edges
- 100,174 (directed)
- Collected
- 2010/2024 (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, 52.9 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 (122,786 rows), users (50,776 rows), x_votes (172,517 rows), x_badges (68,823 rows), x_tags (701 rows), x_post_history (154,034 rows), x_post_links (4,067 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 — quant.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-quant.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — quant.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-quant.echo.directory/.