Stack Exchange — drones.stackexchange.com
The content of drones.stackexchange.com (https://drones.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 5,197 rows: 2,612 posts (908 questions, 1,277 answers, 208 tag wiki excerpts, 208 tag wikis, 8 posts of type 6 and 3 posts of type 7) and 2,585 comments, written between 14 April 2020 and 21 March 2024. Beside it are 5,251 user accounts, 9,983 votes, 6,281 badges awarded, 224 tags, 7,829 post revisions and 109 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 10 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-drones.echo.directory
Analytics
Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.
Topic 0
Topic 1
Topic 2
Topic 3
Topic 4
Topic 5
Topic 6
Topic 7
Topic 8
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-drones-stackexchange-com- Authors
- Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Year
- 2024
- Source paper
- Stack Exchange Data Dump
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Records
- 5,907
- Nodes
- 502
- Edges
- 848 (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
- 2020/2024 (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, 2.3 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 (5,197 rows), users (5,251 rows), x_votes (9,983 rows), x_badges (6,281 rows), x_tags (224 rows), x_post_history (7,829 rows), x_post_links (109 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 — drones.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-drones.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — drones.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-drones.echo.directory/.