Stack Exchange — martialarts.stackexchange.com

The content of martialarts.stackexchange.com (https://martialarts.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 24,155 rows: 9,602 posts (2,307 questions, 6,874 answers, 207 tag wiki excerpts, 207 tag wikis, 5 posts of type 6 and 2 posts of type 7) and 14,553 comments, written between 31 January 2012 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 9,925 user accounts, 45,832 votes, 16,195 badges awarded, 203 tags, 26,364 post revisions and 863 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 72 rows.

#Martial arts#Reputation#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 2,074 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

2.1K
Nodes
5.3K
Edges
1.22e-03
Density
12
Components
-0.2073
Assortativity
3.3%
Reciprocity
1.1K
Bridges
Most central nodes
820.0492
110.04197
680.03907
67500.0246
80.02315
3470.02267
76440.02171
3380.01978
2590.01833
19730.01785
Content metrics

24,155 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 1.828 ± 3.357
min -7max 75
x view countμ 2.9K ± 9.1K
min 9max 187.7K
x answer countμ 2.98 ± 2.632
min 0max 25
x comment countμ 1.516 ± 2.382
min 0max 25
8.6
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.5
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
martialliketrainingartsdontimegoodwayusepeopleopponenttechniquesbodykicktechniquequestionknowanswerthinkwanthandartpracticefightrightdifferentjudoworkneedleggoingselfbetterlotkaratelearnstylepointdefensefindsparringtrainpunchheadfightinghardthingskickstrybelt
Topic clusters

Topic 0

kick
leg
foot
knee
opponent
stretch
muscle
fight

Topic 1

knife
weapon
self
gun
defense
situation
fight
law

Topic 2

bag
glove
wrist
knuckle
hand
punch
fist
wrap

Topic 3

kata
karate
shotokan
ryu
style
form
art
japanese

Topic 4

question
answer
comment
ask
discussion
think
good
topic

Topic 5

martial
art
question
learn
teacher
instructor
good
answer

Topic 6

sword
blade
weapon
cut
steel
longsword
hema
use

Topic 7

student
instructor
class
teacher
school
teach
ask
good

Topic 8

aikido
tomiki
aiki
shodokan
technique
ueshiba
style
art

Topic 9

judo
bjj
throw
technique
judoka
jujutsu
groundwork
randori

Topic 10

strength
training
exercise
weight
muscle
week
day
workout

Topic 11

belt
black
white
dan
rank
year
blue
red
Show all 24 topics

Topic 12

chi
tai
taiji
internal
push
chen
style
art

Topic 13

brain
bone
concussion
head
damage
hit
cause
injury

Topic 14

uke
tori
waza
kodokan
throw
gatame
judo
gaeshi

Topic 15

thank
answer
appreciate
question
glad
help
good
great

Topic 16

krav
maga
self
defense
art
martial
learn
system

Topic 17

edit
question
answer
post
remove
add
change
information

Topic 18

choke
blood
neck
pressure
unconscious
artery
brain
naked

Topic 19

spar
partner
learn
hit
training
fight
injury
know

Topic 20

shaolin
monk
temple
wushu
southern
chinese
china
kalaripayattu

Topic 21

mat
fall
roll
concrete
floor
practice
soft
learn

Topic 22

bjj
jiu
jitsu
mma
gracie
wrestling
luta
livre

Topic 23

breathing
breath
breathe
exhale
inhale
meditation
chi
slow
Top hashtags
#172
#247
#322
#417
#65
#history5
#48074
#54
#97554
#113
#43173
#73
#70073
#imgrc3
#v3
#127232
#28092
#30302
#60082
#65012

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-martialarts-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
26,562
Nodes
2,074
Edges
5,256 (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, 13.0 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 (24,155 rows), users (9,925 rows), x_votes (45,832 rows), x_badges (16,195 rows), x_tags (203 rows), x_post_history (26,364 rows), x_post_links (863 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 — martialarts.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-martialarts.echo.directory/

MLA

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

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

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