Stack Exchange — proofassistants.stackexchange.com

The content of proofassistants.stackexchange.com (https://proofassistants.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 7,911 rows: 2,733 posts (942 questions, 1,303 answers, 241 tag wiki excerpts, 241 tag wikis and 6 posts of type 6) and 5,178 comments, written between 8 February 2022 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 3,372 user accounts, 15,663 votes, 5,872 badges awarded, 241 tags, 8,901 post revisions and 251 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 12 rows.

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Analytics

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Node size is centrality, colour is community. Hover a node for details; click one to isolate its community.

447
Nodes
993
Edges
4.98e-03
Density
5
Components
-0.1781
Assortativity
2.8%
Reciprocity
196
Bridges
Most central nodes
320.07848
1530.0583
490.05381
4670.05157
50.04484
150.0426
780.04036
1250.03812
1220.03363
40.03363
Content metrics

7,911 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 2.068 ± 4.298
min -5max 63
x view countμ 309.391 ± 509.7
min 19max 7.3K
x answer countavg 1.38 / 10
0std 1.1110
x comment countμ 1.895 ± 2.882
min 0max 23
x favorite count11.1% true
true 11.1%false 88.9%
9.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
typeproofleanlikecoqnattheoryusetypessetquestionexampletheoremdefinitionthinklistwayinductivefunctiondonforallanswercodewantproveknowagdacaseproofslogicworkneedlanguageinductiontruetermequalitypropassistantsassistantendapplylemmasystemdifferentdatadependentdefinerewritematch
Topic clusters

Topic 0

lean
code
file
mathlib
project
list
use
like

Topic 1

theory
type
category
zfc
set
dependent
model
universe

Topic 2

lemma
apply
rewrite
forall
goal
tactic
proof
induction

Topic 3

question
answer
ask
comment
vote
community
think
good

Topic 4

nat
list
match
end
type
definition
bool
forall

Topic 5

agda
cubical
type
set
refl
theory
case
check

Topic 6

coq
ocaml
opam
gappa
module
platform
code
string

Topic 7

inductive
type
induction
mutual
coinductive
definition
define
constructor

Topic 8

proof
assistant
theorem
mathematic
computer
language
prover
formal

Topic 9

thank
look
yes
welcome
helpful
know
exactly
nice

Topic 10

assistant
proof
assistants
question
ask
prover
beginner
april

Topic 11

logic
axiom
classical
order
logical
theory
lem
constructive
Show all 18 topics

Topic 12

isabelle
hol
locale
logic
sml
framework
power
pow

Topic 13

universe
type
level
polymorphism
polymorphic
hierarchy
realignment
like

Topic 14

edit
thank
fix
question
answer
sorry
apologize
correction

Topic 15

equality
definitional
canonicity
term
propositional
type
irrelevant
squash

Topic 16

rewrite
helper
use
equality
goal
comm
work
negb

Topic 17

tag
use
question
request
specific
relate
assistant
proof
Top hashtags
#eval103
#check76
#print57
#narrow36
#reduce13
#17
#coq7
#help5
#24
#34
#file4
#lean4
#sum4
#43
#creating3
#issuecomment3
#l3
#marios3
#algebraic_closure2
#category_theory2

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-proofassistants-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2024
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 4.0 (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
8,786
Nodes
447
Edges
993 (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
2022/2024 (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, 3.6 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 (7,911 rows), users (3,372 rows), x_votes (15,663 rows), x_badges (5,872 rows), x_tags (241 rows), x_post_history (8,901 rows), x_post_links (251 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 — proofassistants.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-proofassistants.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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