Stack Exchange — math.stackexchange.com

The content of math.stackexchange.com (https://math.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 10,905,551 rows: 3,792,435 posts (1,641,406 questions, 2,146,413 answers, 2,250 tag wiki excerpts, 2,250 tag wikis, 4 posts of type 3, 108 posts of type 6 and 4 posts of type 7) and 7,113,116 comments, written between 27 March 2010 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 1,152,928 user accounts, 12,421,040 votes, 2,247,164 badges awarded, 1,997 tags, 11,588,107 post revisions and 408,330 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 39,097 rows.

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 318,785 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

318.8K
Nodes
1.7M
Edges
1.64e-05
Density
1.6K
Components
-0.07943
Assortativity
0.2%
Reciprocity
129.2K
Bridges
Most central nodes
587420.00364
807080.00284
1034410.00276
258050.00254
246900.00249
543980.00231
429120.0023
143110.00225
5577080.00225
2943650.00211
Content metrics

10,905,551 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.02 ± 3.897
min -72max 1.6K
x view countμ 860.252 ± 5.1K
min 2max 718.8K
x answer countμ 1.308 ± 1.16
min 0max 164
x comment countμ 1.876 ± 2.674
min 0max 111
x favorite countμ 0.003 ± 0.067
min 0max 12
8.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
fracrightmathbbleftinftysqrtletfunctionquestionsetendsum_alphaanswerknowcdotsinbeginnumberfindtexttimesusecosthetapointproblemcaseleqproveequationgiventhinkpartialdonlikeproofmathcalwayneedexamplespacesumlambdasolutionthanksmatrixphitheoremalign
Topic clusters

Topic 0

set
proof
prove
axiom
statement
true
logic
theory

Topic 1

line
angle
point
triangle
circle
plane
vector
coordinate

Topic 2

derivative
continuous
function
measure
measurable
differentiable
point
continuity

Topic 3

sequence
converge
limit
convergence
series
convergent
subsequence
diverge

Topic 4

space
vector
topology
subspace
metric
basis
open
set

Topic 5

prime
number
integer
digit
odd
divide
remainder
factor

Topic 6

group
subgroup
order
map
category
functor
element
isomorphism

Topic 7

equation
solution
solve
differential
pde
problem
ode
expression

Topic 8

matrix
eigenvalue
row
eigenvector
column
diagonal
determinant
positive

Topic 9

distribution
random
probability
variable
sample
process
variance
value

Topic 10

thank
answer
lot
help
explanation
understand
fix
yes

Topic 11

integral
integration
integrate
substitution
evaluate
function
indefinite
write
Show all 17 topics

Topic 12

probability
ball
card
win
game
roll
event
number

Topic 13

edit
sorry
typo
thank
delete
yes
question
mistake

Topic 14

root
polynomial
degree
factor
square
equation
coefficient
quadratic

Topic 15

ring
ideal
field
polynomial
element
galois
prime
extension

Topic 16

think
explain
understand
book
question
yes
right
answer
Top hashtags
#179.1K
#221K
#c0014.2K
#310.2K
#0a06.4K
#_6K
#v2.4K
#c000002K
#f001.8K
#include1.5K
#c0a0001.5K
#00a0001.3K
#ffd1.3K
#66f1.2K
#41.2K
#definition1.1K
#00f1K
#___964
#9960893
#90f757
Top emoji
𝑋2
𝐴1
𝐵1
𝐶1
𝐸1
𝑥1
𝑦1
𝜌1
𝝠1
😄1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-math-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
12,548,084
Nodes
318,785
Edges
1,665,884 (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
2010/2024 (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, 3.4 GB 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 (10,905,551 rows), users (1,152,928 rows), x_votes (12,421,040 rows), x_badges (2,247,164 rows), x_tags (1,997 rows), x_post_history (11,588,107 rows), x_post_links (408,330 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 — math.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-math.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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