Stack Exchange — workplace.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (workplace.stackexchange.com) dataset of 27,480 users, 96,149 answer-collaboration edges, 32,002 questions, 110,893 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 workplace.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..

#Career#Expertise network#Stack exchange data dump#Workplace

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The full graph has 27,480 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

27.5K
Nodes
96.1K
Edges
1.27e-04
Density
80
Components
-0.09085
Assortativity
0.2%
Reciprocity
8.7K
Bridges
Most central nodes
300620.01023
406090.00804
435280.00488
23170.00426
123360.00411
860110.00411
624930.00408
194300.00404
32980.00397
326110.00389
Content metrics

142,895 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 10.891 ± 28.456
min -49max 968
view countμ 1.2K ± 9.5K
min 0max 1.8M
answer countμ 0.776 ± 1.956
min 0max 32
comment countμ 2.596 ± 3.521
min 0max 68
9.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.7
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
workcompanyjobtimedonlikepeoplewantknowneedgoodmanageraskwaythinkbossteamnewthingsworkingpersoninterviewgoingpositionexperienceofferfindbetteremployerquestionprojecthelpsureproblembestusefeeltelldaysituationanswercompaniesdoesnresumecurrentyearsquestionsprobablystartpoint
Topic clusters

Topic 0

interview
question
interviewer
candidate
answer
ask
job
good

Topic 1

notice
vacation
leave
company
offer
day
week
contract

Topic 2

reference
job
employer
contact
offer
ask
company
apply

Topic 3

salary
pay
offer
raise
company
negotiate
job
negotiation

Topic 4

deal
boss
access
work
computer
network
device
employee

Topic 5

recruiter
company
candidate
contact
job
position
agency
hire

Topic 6

email
send
mail
thank
address
reply
response
person

Topic 7

boss
manager
team
management
good
work
problem
need

Topic 8

office
desk
noise
room
chair
people
headphone
work

Topic 9

resume
list
job
cover
experience
skill
letter
page

Topic 10

code
developer
project
work
team
learn
time
problem

Topic 11

joke
people
person
think
like
behavior
try
way
Show all 23 topics

Topic 12

interview
interviewer
ask
question
job
technical
prepare
apply

Topic 13

resume
cover
letter
include
list
résumé
experience
add

Topic 14

salary
option
price
stock
equity
offer
vest
share

Topic 15

dress
wear
suit
shirt
interview
tie
casual
uniform

Topic 16

degree
college
school
university
graduate
year
computer
job

Topic 17

stress
disability
work
sick
accommodation
anxiety
health
medical

Topic 18

language
technology
experience
java
developer
learn
software
skill

Topic 19

culture
company
work
cultural
question
fit
workplace
people

Topic 20

linkedin
profile
network
connection
connect
contact
professional
people

Topic 21

internship
intern
company
work
summer
student
experience
time

Topic 22

meeting
agenda
event
people
time
attend
team
need
Top hashtags
#1203
#2160
#377
#3933
#422
#510
#65
#75
#2334
#0073
#103
#2s3
#4s3
#6s3
#83
#02
#12342
#149722
#1s2
#82122

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 547.2K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-workplace-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
547,156
Nodes
27,480
Edges
96,149 (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/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 191.7 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 — workplace.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-workplace-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 — workplace.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-workplace-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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