Stack Exchange — sound.stackexchange.com

The content of sound.stackexchange.com (https://sound.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 71,278 rows: 36,262 posts (10,047 questions, 26,050 answers, 80 tag wiki excerpts, 80 tag wikis, 4 posts of type 6 and 1 post of type 7) and 35,016 comments, written between 22 February 2010 and 30 March 2024. Beside it are 23,525 user accounts, 81,036 votes, 33,342 badges awarded, 1,223 tags, 80,687 post revisions and 625 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 49 rows.

#Audio#Expertise network#Reputation#Sound design#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 6,955 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

7K
Nodes
17.6K
Edges
3.63e-04
Density
177
Components
-0.1467
Assortativity
6.0%
Reciprocity
3.8K
Bridges
Most central nodes
181600.04242
400.02804
3380.0233
610.02286
8450.01884
20.01711
3480.01496
64990.01496
5870.01381
64110.01366
Content metrics

71,278 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 0.972 ± 1.924
min -9max 72
x view countμ 2K ± 7.6K
min 2max 270K
x answer countμ 2.593 ± 2.925
min 0max 109
x comment countμ 0.966 ± 1.667
min 0max 30
8.1
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
8.5
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
soundlikeaudiousegoodsoundsrecordingdonneedmictimeworkwantwayknowthinknoisedifferentbitthankstrytrackrecordrightsignalquestionfindmusicgreatlotbettersurestereomixgoingbestleveletcsetdesignqualitypeopleinputfilemicsthingslowfrequencymicrophoneoutput
Topic clusters

Topic 0

midi
track
pro
use
audio
file
keyboard
drum

Topic 1

power
cable
phantom
speaker
xlr
ground
jack
signal

Topic 2

sound
work
design
game
designer
film
job
project

Topic 3

mic
recorder
microphone
good
zoom
sound
preamp
recording

Topic 4

file
bit
wav
format
flac
audio
sample
ffmpeg

Topic 5

thank
great
answer
good
appreciate
advice
help
tip

Topic 6

usb
audio
latency
interface
card
driver
firewire
device

Topic 7

synth
sound
pitch
voice
filter
like
effect
oscillator

Topic 8

loudness
level
frequency
peak
spl
meter
noise
measure

Topic 9

answer
question
comment
vote
topic
ask
post
site

Topic 10

headphone
monitor
speaker
sennheiser
sound
listen
pair
good

Topic 11

film
sound
movie
scene
design
watch
think
like
Top hashtags
#199
#068
#x60
#253
#331
#429
#518
#717
#t13
#611
#85
#chapter5
#file5
#more5
#p5
#the5
#this5
#v5
#00014
#00034

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-sound-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
81,272
Nodes
6,955
Edges
17,557 (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/details/stackexchange link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 28.0 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 (71,278 rows), users (23,525 rows), x_votes (81,036 rows), x_badges (33,342 rows), x_tags (1,223 rows), x_post_history (80,687 rows), x_post_links (625 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 — sound.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-sound.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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