Stack Exchange — musicfans.stackexchange.com

The content of musicfans.stackexchange.com (https://musicfans.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 11,885 rows: 6,044 posts (2,276 questions, 3,440 answers, 163 tag wiki excerpts, 163 tag wikis and 2 posts of type 7) and 5,841 comments, written between 24 February 2015 and 30 March 2024. Beside it are 13,605 user accounts, 39,559 votes, 19,275 badges awarded, 230 tags, 19,377 post revisions and 173 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 129 rows.

#Expertise network#Music fandom#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 2,069 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

2.1K
Nodes
2.7K
Edges
6.37e-04
Density
101
Components
-0.1779
Assortativity
0.8%
Reciprocity
1.4K
Bridges
Most central nodes
530.02079
8060.01983
32600.01934
70.01354
700.01257
1440.01161
470.01112
240.01015
1220.00967
32140.00919
Content metrics

11,885 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.983 ± 3.665
min -6max 80
x view countμ 2.5K ± 12.1K
min 9max 283.4K
x answer countμ 1.513 ± 1.346
min 0max 11
x comment countμ 0.967 ± 1.688
min 0max 16
8.7
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
musicsonglikesongsalbumtimerockknowdonquestiongenrelyricsthinksoundfindbandanswerdifferentnewwaypeoplegoodvideojazzrecorduseexampleoriginaltrackstylesimilarloveversionpopfoundcalledsoundsartistswantlotrecordingpiecewikipediaartistlookingclassicalmusicalyearsbandsguitar
Topic clusters

Topic 0

answer
question
thank
link
topic
think
good
edit

Topic 1

lyric
song
love
mean
meaning
like
feel
life

Topic 2

music
classical
piece
composer
symphony
beethoven
piano
concerto

Topic 3

jazz
swing
bebop
style
cool
music
free
davis

Topic 4

vinyl
record
turntable
quality
speed
sound
press
motor

Topic 5

genre
house
electronic
music
trance
industrial
techno
garage

Topic 6

guitar
string
hendrix
guitarist
clapton
musician
strat
play

Topic 7

video
youtube
radio
link
song
music
find
clip

Topic 8

soundtrack
movie
music
shazam
game
video
film
song

Topic 9

french
turn
lyric
english
song
translation
language
love

Topic 10

metal
rock
band
prog
genre
heavy
progressive
like

Topic 11

beatles
band
rock
ozzy
lennon
group
sabbath
mccartney
Show all 16 topics

Topic 12

blue
music
black
american
soul
style
african
country

Topic 13

copyright
label
company
record
artist
right
pay
royalty

Topic 14

headphone
audio
speaker
cable
sound
volume
loud
turntable

Topic 15

spanish
language
folk
sing
chant
music
song
gregorian
Top hashtags
#1163
#227
#m9
#67
#v6
#1s5
#35
#45
#55
#75
#134
#103
#5q3
#83
#track_listing3
#verb3
#122
#202
#222
#242

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-musicfans-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
14,072
Nodes
2,069
Edges
2,724 (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
2015/2024 (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, 6.4 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 (11,885 rows), users (13,605 rows), x_votes (39,559 rows), x_badges (19,275 rows), x_tags (230 rows), x_post_history (19,377 rows), x_post_links (173 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 — musicfans.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-musicfans.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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