Stack Exchange — workplace.stackexchange.com
The content of workplace.stackexchange.com (https://workplace.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 514,845 rows: 143,598 posts (32,002 questions, 110,893 answers, 325 tag wiki excerpts, 325 tag wikis, 48 posts of type 6 and 5 posts of type 7) and 371,247 comments, written between 7 March 2012 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 106,548 user accounts, 2,010,225 votes, 284,082 badges awarded, 496 tags, 366,209 post revisions and 13,836 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 305 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-workplace.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 27,485 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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Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-workplace-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
- 547,156
- Nodes
- 27,485
- Edges
- 96,164 (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
- 2012/2024 (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, 191.7 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 (514,845 rows), users (106,548 rows), x_votes (2,010,225 rows), x_badges (284,082 rows), x_tags (496 rows), x_post_history (366,209 rows), x_post_links (13,836 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 — workplace.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-workplace.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — workplace.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-workplace.echo.directory/.