Stack Exchange — codereview.stackexchange.com

The content of codereview.stackexchange.com (https://codereview.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 546,775 rows: 202,105 posts (77,533 questions, 121,846 answers, 1,342 tag wiki excerpts, 1,342 tag wikis, 36 posts of type 6 and 6 posts of type 7) and 344,670 comments, written between 6 September 2008 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 241,571 user accounts, 1,028,619 votes, 416,451 badges awarded, 1,163 tags, 769,664 post revisions and 8,861 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 1,983 rows.

#Code review#Expertise network#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 47,392 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

47.4K
Nodes
100.9K
Edges
4.49e-05
Density
942
Components
-0.04479
Assortativity
0.6%
Reciprocity
23.2K
Bridges
Most central nodes
583600.00547
285390.00279
583410.00272
905010.00247
1539170.00234
426320.00215
372540.00198
237880.00196
468400.00179
158300.00177
Content metrics

546,775 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.638 ± 3.546
min -52max 373
x view countμ 2.4K ± 8.3K
min 8max 471.1K
x answer countμ 1.572 ± 1.12
min 0max 20
x comment countμ 1.706 ± 2.443
min 0max 41
x favorite countμ 0.002 ± 0.046
min 0max 2
9.0
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.5
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
returnintcodestringnewselfpublicclassfunctionstdusevaluedatalistconstvoidlikevarendtrueprivatearraydefinputnullnumbercasetypefalseaddsetfiletimeneedprintstaticdonsizelengthmethodresultimportwaynodeobjectkeysystemindexlinetext
Topic clusters

Topic 0

return
node
int
const
char
typename
template
string

Topic 1

array
list
return
int
function
number
code
def

Topic 2

thank
answer
think
look
appreciate
good
help
feedback

Topic 3

player
game
int
public
return
board
def
new

Topic 4

review
code
question
answer
welcome
post
ask
work

Topic 5

div
var
function
css
html
color
text
element

Topic 6

nan
dim
select
datum
set
end
column
row

Topic 7

class
public
private
new
method
string
void
return

Topic 8

php
echo
function
database
user
public
connection
return
Top hashtags
#include76.9K
#define18.8K
#endif7.2K
#ifndef4.5K
#pragma3.5K
#if3.1K
#region2.4K
#12.2K
#endregion2.2K
#21.7K
#ifdef1.7K
#print1.7K
#else1.3K
#fff1.3K
#3947
#import947
#this776
#the686
#elif609
#check607
Top emoji
𐌸1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-codereview-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
624,942
Nodes
47,392
Edges
100,897 (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
2008/2024 (2000s, 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, 485.0 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 (546,775 rows), users (241,571 rows), x_votes (1,028,619 rows), x_badges (416,451 rows), x_tags (1,163 rows), x_post_history (769,664 rows), x_post_links (8,861 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 — codereview.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-codereview.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — codereview.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-codereview.echo.directory/.

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