Stack Exchange — judaism.stackexchange.com

The content of judaism.stackexchange.com (https://judaism.stackexchange.com/), a Stack Exchange question-and-answer site, as published in the Stack Exchange Data Dump of April 2024 on the Internet Archive. The posts table holds 393,198 rows: 103,762 posts (40,878 questions, 60,873 answers, 998 tag wiki excerpts, 998 tag wikis, 10 posts of type 6 and 5 posts of type 7) and 289,436 comments, written between 6 December 2009 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 23,432 user accounts, 494,198 votes, 60,394 badges awarded, 1,333 tags, 374,658 post revisions and 25,342 links between posts. Every answer keeps the question it answers and every comment the post it was written on, so the threads can be rebuilt. The Internet Archive item describes the dump as anonymised; the votes table names the voter in only 1,518 rows.

#Expertise network#Judaism#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 6,537 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

6.5K
Nodes
31.6K
Edges
7.41e-04
Density
21
Components
-0.2554
Assortativity
11.3%
Reciprocity
3.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
52750.0586
2000.04789
1700.04605
20.03993
50.03611
4720.03565
18570.03534
7300.03458
1280.03182
7320.02999
Content metrics

393,198 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.286 ± 2.659
min -15max 132
x view countμ 567.631 ± 1.7K
min 9max 107.4K
x answer countμ 1.489 ± 1.526
min 0max 51
x comment countμ 2.79 ± 3.473
min 0max 56
x favorite count0.1% true
true 0.1%false 99.9%
8.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.6
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
questiontorahlikeanswerdonsayspeopleknowthinkrabbitimejewishsaidsourcewaypersongodhashemdifferentdaydoesnjewsaccordingravrambamcasenongoodreasonpointneedsourcesfindgemarausemeanmoshewordsayingrashiexamplemanwordsworldmeansreadisraelunderstandshabbosdoubleaa
Topic clusters

Topic 0

question
answer
source
think
thank
link
edit
ask

Topic 1

eat
kosher
food
meat
animal
wine
water
cook

Topic 2

rashi
word
hebrew
mean
pronounce
write
translation
meaning

Topic 3

jewish
jews
judaism
god
torah
world
believe
people

Topic 4

day
shabbat
rosh
time
yom
chodesh
night
shabbos

Topic 5

king
god
son
lord
torah
come
shall
people

Topic 6

marry
wife
marriage
woman
husband
man
divorce
father

Topic 7

torah
talmud
rabbi
learn
question
source
know
study
Top hashtags
#2657
#1644
#v478
#3430
#4224
#5132
#6107
#7106
#885
#showrashi80
#1077
#970
#1367
#1164
#1248
#5335146
#cite_note42
#1940
#p40
#1537
Top emoji
😄1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-judaism-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2024
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 2.5 / 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-2.5 AND CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
434,748
Nodes
6,537
Edges
31,649 (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/details/stackexchange link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 132.6 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
Data package
Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (393,198 rows), users (23,432 rows), x_votes (494,198 rows), x_badges (60,394 rows), x_tags (1,333 rows), x_post_history (374,658 rows), x_post_links (25,342 rows).
Structure
Temporal (timestamped), Node attributes, Text, Threaded conversations

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_2024,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2024},
  month     = {apr},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/details/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2024). Stack Exchange — judaism.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-judaism.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — judaism.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-judaism.echo.directory/.

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