Stack Exchange — buddhism.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (buddhism.stackexchange.com) dataset of 3,874 users, 13,889 answer-collaboration edges, 8,492 questions, 28,765 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 buddhism.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 3,874 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

3.9K
Nodes
13.9K
Edges
9.26e-04
Density
11
Components
-0.2359
Assortativity
5.4%
Reciprocity
1.7K
Bridges
Most central nodes
1570.06894
5330.04648
4710.03641
1510.03253
81570.03124
115410.0284
168060.02814
2540.02737
1430.02169
69210.0204
Content metrics

37,257 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 2.045 ± 2.857
min -7max 73
view countμ 200.255 ± 1.6K
min 0max 99.3K
answer countμ 0.772 ± 1.794
min 0max 22
comment countμ 1.264 ± 2.32
min 0max 41
9.7
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.6
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
quotbuddhamindamplikebuddhismselfmeditationpeoplelifewaygoodsufferingbuddhistrighttimethinkpracticebodythingsworldpersondondhammasuttaknowconsciousnessviewpathquestionsaidexperienceanswermentalsensefeelingexamplenondifferentbeingsdeathmeansformhavingnoblewrongunderstandkarmamonkscalled
Topic clusters

Topic 0

karma
kill
kamma
action
eat
meat
bad
animal

Topic 1

self
rebirth
exist
existence
consciousness
experience
thing
condition

Topic 2

text
pali
canon
buddhism
sutra
mahayana
sutta
school

Topic 3

meditation
breath
sensation
mind
practice
focus
vipassana
body

Topic 4

buddha
statue
stupa
buddhism
buddhist
hair
represent
worship

Topic 5

dhamma
buddha
stream
teaching
path
sutta
person
amp

Topic 6

monk
monastic
rule
lay
sangha
monastery
buddhist
bhikkhu

Topic 7

suffering
attachment
love
suffer
desire
anger
people
good

Topic 8

buddhism
buddha
god
world
universe
brahma
time
buddhist

Topic 9

consciousness
view
experience
right
practice
mind
metta
awareness

Topic 10

meditation
sleep
dream
meditate
lucid
practice
mindfulness
asleep

Topic 11

sexual
sex
woman
precept
desire
misconduct
lust
partner
Show all 15 topics

Topic 12

consciousness
element
rupa
mind
sense
object
body
nama

Topic 13

feel
feeling
pleasant
suffering
mind
arise
aversion
unpleasant

Topic 14

jhana
concentration
jhāna
jhanas
access
factor
absorption
meditation
Top hashtags
#39302
#273
#167
#345
#p123
#419
#512
#v11
#pts8
#2417
#fnt6
#65
#ch5
#t5
#x200b5
#94
#fn4
#123
#133
#203153

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 93.5K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-buddhism-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
93,544
Nodes
3,874
Edges
13,889 (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
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/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 49.7 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 — buddhism.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-buddhism-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 — buddhism.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-buddhism-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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