Stack Exchange — graphicdesign.stackexchange.com

The content of graphicdesign.stackexchange.com (https://graphicdesign.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 251,327 rows: 101,607 posts (36,449 questions, 64,115 answers, 507 tag wiki excerpts, 507 tag wikis, 24 posts of type 6 and 5 posts of type 7) and 149,720 comments, written between 15 August 2010 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 139,318 user accounts, 434,137 votes, 180,110 badges awarded, 623 tags, 320,171 post revisions and 9,140 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 411 rows.

#Expertise network#Graphic design#Reputation#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 30,634 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

30.6K
Nodes
52.8K
Edges
5.63e-05
Density
629
Components
-0.1243
Assortativity
0.5%
Reciprocity
18.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
32700.00356
26110.00343
13920.00287
940.00281
28570.00268
43800.00264
94470.00258
33270.00248
181680.00232
54980.00215
Content metrics

251,327 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.254 ± 3.963
min -9max 344
x view countμ 5.9K ± 25.5K
min 10max 1.5M
x answer countμ 1.759 ± 1.413
min 0max 25
x comment countμ 1.474 ± 2.232
min 0max 43
x favorite count5.5% true
true 5.5%false 94.5%
7.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
8.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
imageuselikecolorwanttextlayerneedfileillustratorphotoshopwayworkdondesignfonttoolcreatequestionknowsizeselectdifferentanswernewobjectpathimagesthinkrightlookshapegoodexamplesetwhitelayerscolorslinebackgroundtimethanksclickfindpdfblackaddchangesureprint
Topic clusters

Topic 0

path
shape
line
circle
tool
stroke
draw
object

Topic 1

design
client
work
logo
designer
like
good
think

Topic 2

image
pixel
size
file
resolution
gimp
photoshop
save

Topic 3

font
character
typeface
glyph
serif
letter
look
use

Topic 4

answer
question
ask
vote
edit
comment
upvote
post

Topic 5

layer
color
mask
image
background
gradient
white
black

Topic 6

svg
vector
inkscape
illustrator
raster
image
file
use

Topic 7

cmyk
color
print
printer
ink
pantone
rgb
profile

Topic 8

color
colour
blue
value
white
palette
light
hue

Topic 9

thank
answer
glad
work
help
helpful
appreciate
lot

Topic 10

page
indesign
paragraph
text
master
style
document
frame

Topic 11

artboard
illustrator
file
export
save
adobe
link
size
Show all 14 topics

Topic 12

pdf
file
bleed
print
acrobat
page
save
export

Topic 13

screenshot
image
post
add
video
thank
edit
question
Top hashtags
#1364
#2303
#000000278
#ffffff230
#target182
#3147
#fff132
#000112
#64646498
#pxl87
#ff000085
#00ff0076
#0000ff52
#449
#x250048
#ffff0041
#00ffff34
#prc34
#a29
#33333328
Top emoji
🔁1
😁1

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-graphicdesign-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
288,156
Nodes
30,634
Edges
52,810 (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, 99.0 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 (251,327 rows), users (139,318 rows), x_votes (434,137 rows), x_badges (180,110 rows), x_tags (623 rows), x_post_history (320,171 rows), x_post_links (9,140 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 — graphicdesign.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-graphicdesign.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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