Stack Exchange — gis.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (gis.stackexchange.com) dataset of 60,515 users, 142,989 answer-collaboration edges, 163,544 questions, 181,351 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 gis.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..

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The full graph has 60,515 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

60.5K
Nodes
143K
Edges
3.90e-05
Density
1.1K
Components
-0.09588
Assortativity
0.7%
Reciprocity
33.7K
Bridges
Most central nodes
56360.00471
31120.00385
4420.00357
1080.00349
6850.00345
81040.00345
8030.00329
68000.00324
28910.00279
10720.00274
Content metrics

344,895 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 2.472 ± 4.709
min -9max 972
view countμ 829.457 ± 4.7K
min 0max 569.6K
answer countμ 0.526 ± 0.903
min 0max 47
comment countμ 1.48 ± 2.167
min 0max 54
9.6
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.8
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
datamapuselayernewarcgisfilelikepointfeatureopenlayersneedwantcreateqgisarcpysetcodequottablepointswayrasteresripythonaddpolygonservergisvarlinefeaturestoolfunctionselectworkgeometrylayersfieldtypegoogleexampleknowerrormapsfindvaluefilesspatialtime
Topic clusters

Topic 0

data
look
try
post
link
work
sample
window

Topic 1

polygon
point
polyline
line
vertex
feature
geometry
create

Topic 2

openlayers
geoserver
layer
wms
tile
new
wfs
var

Topic 3

raster
grass
dem
elevation
cell
point
value
area

Topic 4

projection
coordinate
latitude
system
point
longitude
degree
lat

Topic 5

gis
question
map
software
good
open
learn
source

Topic 6

postgis
table
database
query
spatial
sql
geometry
postgi

Topic 7

label
layer
symbol
new
draw
map
legend
button

Topic 8

server
arcgis
service
silverlight
flex
api
rest
esri

Topic 9

dim
set
arcmap
class
public
new
event
void

Topic 10

field
row
value
table
attribute
shapefile
join
dbf

Topic 11

geodatabase
arcsde
sde
table
database
connection
sql
create
Show all 18 topics

Topic 12

gdal
image
file
geotiff
gdalwarp
python
ogr
use

Topic 13

gps
address
zip
geocode
garmin
satellite
location
code

Topic 14

datum
osm
census
openstreetmap
download
city
area
free

Topic 15

arcgis
license
desktop
extension
server
engine
mxd
run

Topic 16

map
geotool
mapping
web
service
accessibility
sharpmap
geotoolkit

Topic 17

python
script
arcpy
import
run
arcgis
tool
module
Top hashtags
#set88
#185
#282
#print74
#create69
#map54
#this51
#region49
#00000045
#arcpy45
#endregion45
#get45
#loadmodule41
#ff000038
#3936
#if34
#the30
#ffffff29
#import28
#6ed66524

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 1M records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-gis-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
1,025,880
Nodes
60,515
Edges
142,989 (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
2009/2024 (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/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 370.4 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 — gis.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-gis-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 — gis.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-gis-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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