Math Overflow Temporal Network — C2Q

A Math Overflow (C2Q) dataset of 16,836 users and 101,329 temporal edges, collected by Paranjape, Benson, Leskovec via Stack Exchange Data Dump (2017). Each record contains directed temporal edges (c2q) between users with Unix timestamps. The dataset is notable for its C2Q interaction type from a 6.4-year temporal network of academic Q&A. Intended for research into temporal network analysis, motif discovery, social interaction dynamics, and academic community analysis.

#Mathematics#Mathoverflow#Network motif#Stack exchange data dump#Temporal network

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The full graph has 16,836 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

16.8K
Nodes
101.3K
Edges
3.58e-04
Density
145
Components
-0.053
Assortativity
3.5%
Reciprocity
4.5K
Bridges
Most central nodes
60940.02691
28410.0161
2900.0136
111420.01265
109090.01236
13580.01206
47210.01176
780.00998
26720.00962
366880.0095

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
mathoverflow-c2q
Authors
Paranjape, Ashwin; Benson, Austin R.; Leskovec, Jure
Year
2017
Source paper
Motifs in Temporal Networks
DOI / arXiv
10.1145/3018661.3018731
License
Academic use (SNAP Stanford) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
Records
16,836
Nodes
16,836
Edges
101,329 (directed)
Nodes are
user
Edges are
comment to question
Attributes
nodes have no attributes; edges have attributes
Languages
en
Collected
2350 days (~6.4 years)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection

Provenance

Originally published at
https://snap.stanford.edu/data/sx-mathoverflow.html link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 4.2 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

Motifs in Temporal Networks
Ashwin Paranjape, Austin R. Benson, J. Leskovec
Book · Web Search and Data Mining · 2016

829
citations
well cited
95
influential citations
11% of all citations

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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.

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}
}

@inproceedings{paranjape2017motifs,
  title     = {Motifs in Temporal Networks},
  author    = {Paranjape, Ashwin and Benson, Austin R. and Leskovec, Jure},
  booktitle = {WSDM},
  year      = {2017},
  doi       = {10.1145/3018661.3018731}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Paranjape, A., Benson, A. R., & Leskovec, J. (2017). Math Overflow Temporal Network — C2Q [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1145/3018661.3018731

MLA

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

Paranjape, Ashwin, et al. Math Overflow Temporal Network — C2Q. 2017, doi.org/10.1145/3018661.3018731.

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