Stack Exchange — puzzling.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (puzzling.stackexchange.com) dataset of 13,533 users, 47,181 answer-collaboration edges, 27,362 questions, 63,997 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 puzzling.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 13,533 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

13.5K
Nodes
47.2K
Edges
2.58e-04
Density
68
Components
-0.1114
Assortativity
5.0%
Reciprocity
7.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
344190.03754
53730.03022
625370.03015
185140.02483
225190.02114
23830.02069
88740.01914
419730.01907
106150.01707
190260.01567
Content metrics

91,359 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 7.141 ± 10.558
min -29max 608
view countμ 512.683 ± 8.7K
min 0max 1.7M
answer countμ 0.701 ± 1.63
min 0max 28
comment countμ 2.679 ± 3.471
min 0max 84
8.5
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.3
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
ampnumberanswerlikeknowpuzzletimerightleftnumberswordfinddonsolutionquestionthinksecondtimeslettersnbspwayendpeoplepossiblewordsuseletterfrachintneedlinequotcaseletsquaretextdifferentredfoundpointdaymeansemspsurefollowingpersonnewsetgametrue
Topic clusters

Topic 0

word
letter
like
answer
time
find
think
line

Topic 1

number
digit
prime
sequence
answer
integer
product
value

Topic 2

cube
cut
edge
triangle
piece
square
point
corner

Topic 3

player
win
game
square
number
roll
play
board

Topic 4

cipher
letter
key
text
character
code
message
decode

Topic 5

albert
bernard
day
date
year
month
child
july

Topic 6

coin
weight
ball
weigh
pan
heavy
weighing
light

Topic 7

puzzle
question
solve
tag
level
answer
solution
computer

Topic 8

knight
knave
lie
truth
joker
false
true
statement

Topic 9

square
row
magic
column
grid
number
sum
diagonal

Topic 10

guest
innocent
guilty
rabbit
guard
security
bunny
arrive

Topic 11

moon
star
planet
alien
element
earth
atom
sun
Show all 14 topics

Topic 12

robot
chuck
maze
room
law
survive
pipe
percentage

Topic 13

riddle
poem
rhyme
twist
answer
simple
lamb
line
Top hashtags
#11.8K
#21.4K
#31.2K
#4567
#5311
#6207
#7128
#875
#include69
#954
#3946
#1024037
#1032
#f32
#1004328
#024
#1623
#1121
#1521
#10019

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 364.4K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-puzzling-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
364,400
Nodes
13,533
Edges
47,181 (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
2014/2024 (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, 110.8 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 — puzzling.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-puzzling-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 — puzzling.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-puzzling-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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