Stack Exchange — japanese.stackexchange.com

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The content of japanese.stackexchange.com (https://japanese.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 174,195 rows: 70,923 posts (29,273 questions, 41,017 answers, 312 tag wiki excerpts, 312 tag wikis, 7 posts of type 6 and 2 posts of type 7) and 103,272 comments, written between 31 May 2011 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 39,934 user accounts, 306,662 votes, 73,975 badges awarded, 360 tags, 233,644 post revisions and 16,768 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 197 rows.

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Analytics

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The full graph has 174,195 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

174.2K
Nodes
144.3K
Edges
4.76e-06
Density
29.9K
Components
0.0%
Reciprocity
144.3K
Bridges
Most central nodes
540250.00018
46090.00014
720880.00014
9480.00014
59520.00013
11290.00013
47600.00013
746360.00013
30180.00012
58290.00012
Content metrics

174,195 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.858 ± 3.561
min -10max 194
x view countμ 1.4K ± 6K
min 20max 428.6K
x answer countμ 1.401 ± 0.845
min 0max 11
x comment countμ 1.456 ± 2.17
min 0max 32
x favorite count0.2% true
true 0.2%false 99.8%
7.4
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
likejapanesesentencethinkusemeansquestionmeaningdonenglishwordformverbexamplemeanknowwayanswercontextwordspeoplekanjicaseunderstandsensedifferenttimetranslationpersoncorrectwantdoesnsurephrasenoundifferenceetcrightreadsoundssaidgoodsoundthingcommonspeakersayingthingssentencesverbs
Topic clusters

Topic 0

kanji
character
write
japanese
reading
word
chinese
katakana

Topic 1

think
correct
right
typo
yes
instead
answer
sentence

Topic 2

game
character
anime
translation
manga
like
mean
context

Topic 3

verb
form
adjective
stem
noun
conjugation
adverb
modify

Topic 4

answer
question
edit
post
downvote
comment
ask
think

Topic 5

sound
hear
polite
feel
like
talk
casual
speech

Topic 6

accent
pitch
pronounce
pronunciation
sound
vowel
mora
word

Topic 7

eat
food
fish
drink
meat
rice
sentence
食べる

Topic 8

japanese
question
learn
japan
people
language
answer
ask

Topic 9

thank
answer
help
lot
helpful
explanation
glad
detailed

Topic 10

particle
sentence
case
mark
noun
use
subject
object

Topic 11

mean
sentence
という
come
meaning
phrase
like
translate
Show all 27 topics

Topic 12

passive
transitive
verb
intransitive
object
direct
form
causative

Topic 13

mean
sentence
like
example
meaning
think
thing
use

Topic 14

example
context
provide
second
sentence
question
help
understand

Topic 15

translation
translate
google
literal
context
sentence
good
translator

Topic 16

accord
mean
quotation
dictionary
meaning
mark
word
use

Topic 17

sentence
quote
grammar
sure
context
think
change
correct

Topic 18

thank
sentence
lot
understand
definition
think
structure
verb

Topic 19

tense
past
state
verb
action
ている
future
present

Topic 20

car
train
weather
snow
drive
drift
fall
bike

Topic 21

lyric
song
line
tear
translation
heartbeat
singer
proof

Topic 22

male
man
gender
woman
people
use
female
friend

Topic 23

related
law
sentence
mean

Topic 24

clause
relative
modify
noun
phrase
subordinate
subject
verb

Topic 25

duplicate
possible
relate
question
related
delete
mark
appearance

Topic 26

omit
ところ
sentence
place
mean
particle
meaning
walk
Top hashtags
#2524
#1435
#3283
#4121
#572
#jn72
#je68
#japanese66
#v53
#ja48
#644
#e542
#q33
#79925
#722
#820
#e319
#918
#e717
#page16
Top emoji
𠮟1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-japanese-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2024
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
174,195
Nodes
174,195
Edges
144,289 (directed)
Collected
2011/2024 (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, 68.6 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 (174,195 rows), users (39,934 rows), x_votes (306,662 rows), x_badges (73,975 rows), x_tags (360 rows), x_post_history (233,644 rows), x_post_links (16,768 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 — japanese.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-japanese.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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