Stack Exchange — graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

A Stack Exchange (graphicdesign.stackexchange.com) dataset of 30,634 users, 52,810 answer-collaboration edges, 36,449 questions, 64,115 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 graphicdesign.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 30,634 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

30.6K
Nodes
52.8K
Edges
5.63e-05
Density
629
Components
-0.1243
Assortativity
0.5%
Reciprocity
18.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
32700.00356
26110.00343
13920.00287
940.00281
28570.00268
43800.00264
94470.00258
33270.00248
181680.00232
54980.00215
Content metrics

100,564 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 2.498 ± 5.877
min -9max 344
view countμ 2.1K ± 15.6K
min 0max 1.5M
answer countμ 0.638 ± 1.199
min 0max 25
comment countμ 1.488 ± 2.234
min 0max 43
8.6
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
8.9
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
useimagelikecolorphotoshopwantlayertextdesignillustratorwayfileneedcreatefontworkdonsizetoolselectnewgoodimageslookknowdifferentobjectsetbackgroundwebrightshapelayersclickpageexamplefindcolorslogolinethinkwhitetimepdfblackpathchangesaveadobedocument
Topic clusters

Topic 0

font
typeface
use
serif
text
character
type
look

Topic 1

path
shape
tool
object
select
stroke
click
line

Topic 2

layer
background
image
color
shadow
gradient
effect
mask

Topic 3

design
designer
work
client
logo
look
good
site

Topic 4

print
pdf
page
indesign
file
text
document
size

Topic 5

vector
tablet
illustrator
svg
draw
drawing
use
raster

Topic 6

color
colour
rgb
cmyk
black
profile
value
red

Topic 7

layer
mask
click
select
group
photoshop
new
clip

Topic 8

image
save
file
compression
png
jpeg
size
quality
Top hashtags
#196
#295
#ffffff77
#00000066
#349
#00043
#target41
#fff37
#00ff0030
#3925
#ffff0025
#0000ff24
#ff000023
#416
#512
#33333311
#eee11
#prc11
#s10
#2c2c2c9

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 288.2K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-graphicdesign-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
288,156
Nodes
30,634
Edges
52,810 (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/download/stackexchange link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 99.0 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 — graphicdesign.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-graphicdesign-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 — graphicdesign.stackexchange.com. 2025, stackexchange-graphicdesign-stackexchange-com.echo.directory/.

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