Stack Exchange — skeptics.stackexchange.com
The content of skeptics.stackexchange.com (https://skeptics.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 151,699 rows: 26,862 posts (11,202 questions, 14,398 answers, 613 tag wiki excerpts, 613 tag wikis, 8 posts of type 3, 21 posts of type 6, 6 posts of type 7 and 1 post of type 8) and 124,837 comments, written between 24 February 2011 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 52,050 user accounts, 572,701 votes, 120,164 badges awarded, 692 tags, 136,094 post revisions and 3,111 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 565 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-skeptics.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 151,699 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-skeptics-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
- 151,699
- Nodes
- 151,699
- Edges
- 139,235 (directed)
- Collected
- 2011/2024 (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, 72.6 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 (151,699 rows), users (52,050 rows), x_votes (572,701 rows), x_badges (120,164 rows), x_tags (692 rows), x_post_history (136,094 rows), x_post_links (3,111 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 — skeptics.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-skeptics.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — skeptics.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-skeptics.echo.directory/.