Stack Exchange — hinduism.stackexchange.com
The content of hinduism.stackexchange.com (https://hinduism.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 143,421 rows: 39,531 posts (18,348 questions, 20,221 answers, 477 tag wiki excerpts, 477 tag wikis, 3 posts of type 6 and 5 posts of type 7) and 103,890 comments, written between 18 June 2014 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 25,640 user accounts, 225,612 votes, 44,030 badges awarded, 882 tags, 155,441 post revisions and 13,847 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 572 rows.
Cite this dataset at
stackexchange-hinduism.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 143,421 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackexchange-hinduism-stackexchange-com- Authors
- Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Year
- 2024
- Source paper
- Stack Exchange Data Dump
- License
- CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Records
- 143,421
- Nodes
- 143,421
- Edges
- 124,111 (directed)
- Collected
- 2014/2024 (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, 68.9 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 (143,421 rows), users (25,640 rows), x_votes (225,612 rows), x_badges (44,030 rows), x_tags (882 rows), x_post_history (155,441 rows), x_post_links (13,847 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 — hinduism.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-hinduism.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — hinduism.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-hinduism.echo.directory/.