Stack Exchange — travel.stackexchange.com

The content of travel.stackexchange.com (https://travel.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 434,690 rows: 130,002 posts (48,768 questions, 76,736 answers, 2,230 tag wiki excerpts, 2,230 tag wikis, 34 posts of type 6 and 4 posts of type 7) and 304,688 comments, written between 21 June 2011 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 108,507 user accounts, 1,055,153 votes, 224,462 badges awarded, 1,961 tags, 461,148 post revisions and 22,361 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 2,165 rows.

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 31,218 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

31.2K
Nodes
61K
Edges
6.26e-05
Density
342
Components
-0.1795
Assortativity
1.7%
Reciprocity
19.8K
Bridges
Most central nodes
1400.01477
90090.01371
1010.01246
6930.01051
37360.00891
260.00875
18100.00852
25090.00817
3240.00692
100510.00503
Content metrics

434,690 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 2.892 ± 7.252
min -47max 556
x view countμ 3.4K ± 12.8K
min 9max 439.6K
x answer countμ 1.574 ± 1.484
min 0max 32
x comment countμ 2.344 ± 3.204
min 0max 38
x favorite count0.5% true
true 0.5%false 99.5%
8.9
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
visapassportneedtraveltimedonflightcountrylikequestionairportknowanswerticketusepeopledayswantschengenwaycheckcarddaycasefindentrycountriesthinkstayairlinetraintripgoinglongnewapplygoodsureimmigrationdifferentflightsvisitapplicationpossibleenterworkinformationtransitareavalid
Topic clusters

Topic 0

flight
airline
ticket
airport
check
seat
time
fly

Topic 1

answer
question
thank
comment
edit
link
ask
post

Topic 2

visa
application
apply
visit
month
letter
entry
work

Topic 3

car
road
drive
license
driver
day
rental
traffic

Topic 4

train
ticket
bus
station
route
taxi
time
hour

Topic 5

schengen
visa
day
country
stay
apply
entry
permit

Topic 6

luggage
bag
carry
baggage
check
item
tsa
suitcase

Topic 7

passport
old
new
visa
travel
valid
issue
country

Topic 8

card
bank
cash
credit
currency
exchange
atm
rate

Topic 9

transit
visa
need
airport
ireland
schengen
hour
require

Topic 10

hotel
room
hostel
tip
guest
booking
airbnb
price

Topic 11

phone
sim
mobile
wifi
datum
roam
service
number
Show all 15 topics

Topic 12

water
toilet
tap
drink
clean
wash
dry
bottled

Topic 13

canada
canadian
passport
enter
visa
citizen
day
border

Topic 14

english
speak
language
people
country
iran
like
religion
Top hashtags
#1413
#2336
#3149
#482
#547
#map34
#632
#826
#718
#q17
#016
#6610516
#covid1916
#914
#1013
#faredetail13
#t13
#climate12
#b11
#imgrc11

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-travel-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
484,449
Nodes
31,218
Edges
61,029 (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
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, 148.9 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 (434,690 rows), users (108,507 rows), x_votes (1,055,153 rows), x_badges (224,462 rows), x_tags (1,961 rows), x_post_history (461,148 rows), x_post_links (22,361 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 — travel.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-travel.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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