StackOverflow Social Network
A StackOverflow dataset of 1,301,942 edges, collected by Network Repository. Each record contains user-user interactions. StackOverflow user interaction network. Suitable for social network analysis, community detection.
Cite this dataset at
stackoverflow.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 545,196 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
stackoverflow- Authors
- Stack Exchange, Inc.
- Year
- 2011
- Source paper
- Stack exchange data explorer
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 1,301,942
- Nodes
- 545,196
- Edges
- 1,301,887
- Nodes are
- user
- Edges are
- interaction
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2014 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://networkrepository.com/stackexchange-stackoverflow.php link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 6.1 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{inc2011,
title = {Stack exchange data explorer},
author = {Inc, Stack Exchange},
year = {2011},
note = {http://data.stackexchange.com/, 2011.}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Stack Exchange, Inc. (2011). StackOverflow Social Network [Data set]. https://stackoverflow.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Stack Exchange, Inc. StackOverflow Social Network. 2011, stackoverflow.echo.directory/.