Stack Exchange — homebrew.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (homebrew.stackexchange.com) dataset of 3,985 users, 10,965 answer-collaboration edges, 6,179 questions, 14,159 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 homebrew.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 3,985 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

4K
Nodes
11K
Edges
6.91e-04
Density
24
Components
-0.1861
Assortativity
3.4%
Reciprocity
1.8K
Bridges
Most central nodes
33450.02736
4190.02686
8980.02108
4900.01883
3240.01807
780.01707
28690.01431
18700.01406
520.01305
590.01305
Content metrics

20,338 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 2.791 ± 3.398
min -8max 64
view countμ 834.182 ± 5.3K
min 0max 444.6K
answer countμ 0.696 ± 1.436
min 0max 33
comment countμ 1.148 ± 1.734
min 0max 18
7.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.8
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
beeryeastwaterusefermentationliketimewortsugardongoodaddbottlebrewtemperatureneedboilbatchwantbottlesthinkbrewinggravityhopsmashwayknowwineflavormaltdaysdrysurequestionrecipetastegrainkeggoingco2hopsecondarylittlelongextractgallontryprobablyalcoholhigh
Topic clusters

Topic 0

mash
grain
malt
boil
sparge
water
gallon
efficiency

Topic 1

yeast
starter
pitch
fermentation
beer
temperature
cell
day

Topic 2

keg
pressure
beer
bottle
carbonation
carbonate
gas
line

Topic 3

hop
boil
aroma
dry
bitterness
bag
hopping
flavor

Topic 4

cider
wine
mead
apple
yeast
juice
add
sugar

Topic 5

rinse
clean
bottle
carboy
sanitize
sanitizer
use
bucket

Topic 6

brew
book
recipe
brewing
good
brewer
beer
homebrew

Topic 7

fruit
add
cherry
flavor
secondary
beer
vanilla
chocolate

Topic 8

bottle
cap
capper
light
skunk
beer
twist
glass

Topic 9

fermentation
temperature
lager
secondary
stuck
ferment
primary
fermenter

Topic 10

hydrometer
gravity
reading
refractometer
measure
density
specific
sample

Topic 11

chiller
wort
water
copper
ice
pump
chill
cool
Top hashtags
#274
#173
#329
#s21
#417
#3910
#710
#69
#2207
#97
#56
#2185
#v4
#1b3
#msg1916423
#q3
#10562
#13322
#35232
#602

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 50.5K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-homebrew-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
50,479
Nodes
3,985
Edges
10,965 (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, 15.9 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 — homebrew.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-homebrew-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 — homebrew.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-homebrew-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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