Stack Exchange — money.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (money.stackexchange.com) dataset of 24,820 users, 59,888 answer-collaboration edges, 38,860 questions, 72,475 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 money.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 24,820 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

24.8K
Nodes
59.9K
Edges
9.72e-05
Density
233
Components
-0.1366
Assortativity
0.5%
Reciprocity
12.7K
Bridges
Most central nodes
29910.01229
204800.00778
56560.006
15080.00508
177970.00455
197860.00439
253880.00427
12580.00411
30.00407
16350.00403
Content metrics

111,335 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 4.756 ± 11.415
min -24max 518
view countμ 946.825 ± 7.8K
min 0max 832.9K
answer countμ 0.651 ± 1.349
min 0max 25
comment countμ 2.054 ± 3.137
min 0max 58
8.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.0
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
moneytaxcreditpayaccountyearincomeinteresttimecompanydonbanklikestockpriceneedratecardmarketyearsloanbuyvaluewantusetaxesgoodcashfundfundsway000mortgagenewknowreturnpaymentmonthinvestmentpaidsellsharespeoplelonghousedebtinsurancepayingriskquestion
Topic clusters

Topic 0

credit
card
bank
account
check
score
pay
report

Topic 1

mortgage
loan
house
payment
pay
home
interest
property

Topic 2

tax
taxis
income
pay
state
file
year
business

Topic 3

ira
roth
tax
contribution
retirement
account
money
fund

Topic 4

gold
currency
inflation
money
country
price
dollar
euro

Topic 5

budget
money
account
spend
college
like
save
use

Topic 6

fund
index
stock
mutual
invest
investment
etf
market

Topic 7

insurance
car
policy
hsa
health
life
coverage
pay

Topic 8

stock
price
option
sell
market
buy
trade
order
Top hashtags
#1184
#2164
#385
#427
#3924
#58
#83627
#82095
#m5
#s5
#64
#calculation4
#contribution4
#k4
#73
#83
#internal_rate_of_return3
#sthash3
#202
#5262

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 380.7K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-money-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
380,704
Nodes
24,820
Edges
59,888 (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, 126.5 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 — money.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-money-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 — money.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-money-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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