Stack Exchange — raspberrypi.stackexchange.com

The content of raspberrypi.stackexchange.com (https://raspberrypi.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 244,851 rows: 88,540 posts (37,889 questions, 49,457 answers, 587 tag wiki excerpts, 587 tag wikis, 15 posts of type 6 and 5 posts of type 7) and 156,311 comments, written between 12 June 2012 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 132,330 user accounts, 271,664 votes, 186,869 badges awarded, 611 tags, 309,113 post revisions and 10,956 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 391 rows.

#Computer hardware#Raspberry pi#Reputation#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 28,492 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

28.5K
Nodes
41.1K
Edges
5.07e-05
Density
1.4K
Components
-0.1395
Assortativity
0.2%
Reciprocity
17.9K
Bridges
Most central nodes
860.00207
680.00197
200.00179
292460.00175
930.00172
1600.00165
291030.00165
242960.00158
66090.00158
13120.00154
Content metrics

244,851 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 0.935 ± 4.335
min -11max 341
x view countμ 4.2K ± 19K
min 4max 1.4M
x answer countμ 1.306 ± 1.231
min 0max 23
x comment countμ 1.766 ± 2.558
min 0max 102
x favorite count0.4% true
true 0.4%false 99.6%
7.7
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
8.3
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
raspberryusegpiousbfilerpisudoneedliketimepowerrunworkdevicecardetcwantproblembootnetworkinstallquestiondonrunningtryconnectsetraspbianerroroutputcodesystemdevpythonlinuxwayanswercommandknowservertrieddatasshconnectedwifinewpinreadscriptline
Topic clusters

Topic 0

answer
question
thank
comment
post
edit
ask
link

Topic 1

apt
package
kernel
install
raspbian
update
sudo
version

Topic 2

gpio
pin
relay
resistor
voltage
input
button
current

Topic 3

sensor
serial
uart
datum
spi
read
pin
arduino

Topic 4

script
run
command
file
cron
sudo
crontab
log

Topic 5

power
supply
battery
voltage
usb
hub
charger
current

Topic 6

audio
bluetooth
sound
alsa
pulseaudio
device
play
output

Topic 7

camera
video
picamera
stream
frame
ffmpeg
webcam
image

Topic 8

wifi
network
ethernet
connect
router
internet
connection
access

Topic 9

hdmi
display
screen
monitor
touchscreen
resolution
work
touch

Topic 10

static
dhcp
address
network
router
interface
server
set

Topic 11

ssh
key
file
password
connect
enable
putty
raspberry
Show all 17 topics

Topic 12

partition
mount
card
image
size
boot
file
disk

Topic 13

card
image
try
flash
format
new
insert
reader

Topic 14

pin
solder
wire
breadboard
board
ground
wiring
connect

Topic 15

raspberry
model
question
forum
ask
site
programming
specific

Topic 16

pwm
servo
motor
pigpio
gpio
pulse
control
position
Top hashtags
#include2.2K
#define1.6K
#0899
#1864
#2576
#print367
#3322
#4258
#dtparam230
#dtoverlay211
#static211
#set185
#6183
#5179
#gpio168
#if160
#deb158
#this133
#7124
#uncomment116

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-raspberrypi-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
283,044
Nodes
28,492
Edges
41,149 (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
2012/2024 (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, 99.6 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 (244,851 rows), users (132,330 rows), x_votes (271,664 rows), x_badges (186,869 rows), x_tags (611 rows), x_post_history (309,113 rows), x_post_links (10,956 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 — raspberrypi.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-raspberrypi.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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