Stack Exchange — money.stackexchange.com

The content of money.stackexchange.com (https://money.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 341,167 rows: 112,485 posts (38,860 questions, 72,475 answers, 564 tag wiki excerpts, 564 tag wikis, 8 posts of type 3, 9 posts of type 6 and 5 posts of type 7) and 228,682 comments, written between 6 October 2009 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 96,900 user accounts, 691,728 votes, 169,040 badges awarded, 1,010 tags, 321,234 post revisions and 8,260 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 415 rows.

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Analytics

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· graph.json

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

341,167 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 2.459 ± 7.84
min -24max 518
x view countμ 2.7K ± 12.9K
min 10max 832.9K
x answer countμ 1.865 ± 1.718
min 0max 25
x comment countμ 2.033 ± 3.128
min 0max 58
x favorite count0.6% true
true 0.6%false 99.4%
8.6
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.1
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
moneytaxpayaccountcreditdonyearincomeliketimepricebankinterestcompanystockmarketneedquestionyearsbuyvalueratecardwantloanuseknowtaxesanswercashwaypeoplegoodsharesthink000sellnewpaymentpaidlongreturnriskmortgagefundsmonthhouseinvestmentfundwork
Topic clusters

Topic 0

answer
question
thank
think
vote
edit
link
good

Topic 1

tax
taxis
income
file
pay
irs
year
form

Topic 2

price
option
stock
market
order
trade
sell
buy

Topic 3

ira
roth
contribution
tax
traditional
retirement
contribute
plan

Topic 4

share
company
dividend
stock
shareholder
price
sell
value

Topic 5

house
rent
property
landlord
tenant
home
mortgage
buy

Topic 6

fund
index
etf
vanguard
etfs
market
stock
mutual

Topic 7

car
dealer
loan
vehicle
buy
new
lease
cost

Topic 8

credit
score
card
utilization
history
report
pay
balance

Topic 9

scam
money
scammer
bank
account
send
steal
password

Topic 10

mortgage
loan
payment
interest
rate
pay
refinance
principal

Topic 11

gain
loss
sale
wash
capital
tax
sell
share
Show all 19 topics

Topic 12

insurance
policy
life
company
coverage
cover
health
pay

Topic 13

bank
check
account
deposit
transfer
cheque
atm
money

Topic 14

card
credit
debit
merchant
transaction
bank
visa
charge

Topic 15

bond
yield
rate
coupon
interest
maturity
value
price

Topic 16

student
loan
college
school
pay
degree
tuition
debt

Topic 17

margin
trade
broker
day
trading
datum
account
stock

Topic 18

country
tag
law
question
jurisdiction
state
states
united
Top hashtags
#1972
#2966
#3474
#4150
#568
#637
#calculation29
#717
#s17
#814
#v13
#1012
#internal_rate_of_return11
#european_union9
#united_states8
#optionproductid7
#t7
#m6
#portfolio6
#115

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-money-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
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/details/stackexchange link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 126.5 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 (341,167 rows), users (96,900 rows), x_votes (691,728 rows), x_badges (169,040 rows), x_tags (1,010 rows), x_post_history (321,234 rows), x_post_links (8,260 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 — money.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-money.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. 2024, stackexchange-money.echo.directory/.

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