Stack Exchange — parenting.stackexchange.com
The content of parenting.stackexchange.com (https://parenting.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 82,912 rows: 29,944 posts (6,872 questions, 22,601 answers, 228 tag wiki excerpts, 228 tag wikis, 2 posts of type 3, 11 posts of type 6 and 2 posts of type 7) and 52,968 comments, written between 25 October 2010 and 29 March 2024. Beside it are 32,434 user accounts, 232,367 votes, 65,060 badges awarded, 305 tags, 76,655 post revisions and 1,826 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 172 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-parenting.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 7,867 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-parenting-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
- 89,914
- Nodes
- 7,867
- Edges
- 18,626 (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
- 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 unverified
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 43.4 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 (82,912 rows), users (32,434 rows), x_votes (232,367 rows), x_badges (65,060 rows), x_tags (305 rows), x_post_history (76,655 rows), x_post_links (1,826 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 — parenting.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-parenting.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — parenting.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-parenting.echo.directory/.