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cc-wiki-dump January 16, 2012

Stack Exchange Data Explorer 2.0

It has been a year and a half since we launched Data Explorer. In the past few months Tim Stone (on a community grant) and I have pushed a major round of changes. Thanks Tim! Recap on last years changes Since we publicly launched data explorer, the most notable change contributed back from the community…
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Developer (Former)
cc-wiki-dump September 20, 2011

Creative Commons Data Dump Sep ’11

While we will always continue to produce Stack Exchange creative commons data dumps, we are moving to a quarterly schedule for all future dumps. We won’t be blogging each and every one, as it gets a bit monotonous. Please subscribe to our Clear Bits creator feed to be automatically notified when new Stack Exchange creative…
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Co-Founder (Former)
cc-wiki-dump January 16, 2011

Creative Commons Data Dump Jan ’11

IMPORTANT: This torrent was originally uploaded incomplete. Our apologies. If you downloaded it before ~ 8 pm Pacific on January 16th, 2011, you should re-download it now. The correct size is > 3 GB; anything smaller is incorrect. The latest version of the Stack Exchange Creative Commons Data Dump is now available. This reflects all…
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Co-Founder (Former)
cc-wiki-dump December 13, 2010

Re-Launching Stack Exchange Data Explorer

Since we launched the Stack Exchange Data Explorer in June, we’ve been actively maintaining it and making small improvements to it. But there is one big change — as of today, the site has permanently moved from odata.stackexchange.com to data.stackexchange.com If you’re wondering what the heck this thing is, do read the introductory blog post,…
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Co-Founder (Former)
cc-wiki-dump August 11, 2010

Defending Attribution Required

All content contributed to the Stack Exchange network is licensed under cc-wiki (aka cc-by-sa). What does this mean? In short, it’s a way of guaranteeing that we can’t ever do anything nefarious with the questions and answers the community have so generously shared with us. It’s not unheard of for some companies to arbitrarily decide…
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Co-Founder (Former)
cc-wiki-dump June 25, 2010

Stack Exchange Data Explorer Open Sourced

As promised, the Stack Exchange Data Explorer — a web-based tool for querying our creative commons data — is now open source! This is, of course, the project that our newest Valued Associate, Sam Saffron, has been working so hard on over the last 6-8 weeks. The project is hosted at Google Code in a…
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Co-Founder (Former)
cc-wiki-dump June 13, 2010

Introducing Stack Exchange Data Explorer

Everything contributed to the Stack Exchange network of websites is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Share Alike. This means it belongs to everyone, and can be freely reused (even commercially!), so long as it is follows our simple rules of attribution. That’s our contract with the community — it’s your generously contributed content that…
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Co-Founder (Former)
cc-wiki-dump May 31, 2010

Academic Papers Using Stack Overflow Data

One unanticipated benefit of releasing our data as creative commons is that the Stack Overflow dataset has been the subject of several academic papers already: Evolution of Two Sided Markets Ravi Kumar, Yury Lifshits (Yahoo! Research), and Andrew Tomkins (Google) Presented at WSDM 2010, Session 7: Temporal Interaction View Slides Download paper (pdf) Causal Discovery…
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Co-Founder (Former)
cc-wiki-dump June 25, 2009

Attribution Required

All the content contributed to Stack Overflow or other Stack Exchange sites is cc-wiki (aka cc-by-sa) licensed, intended to be shared and remixed. We even provide all our data as a convenient data dump, seeded by us. But our cc-wiki licensing, while intentionally permissive, does require attribution. Attribution — You must attribute the work in…
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Co-Founder (Former)
cc-wiki-dump June 4, 2009

Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump

We decided early on that all user-generated content on Stack Overflow would be under a Creative Commons license. All those great Stack Overflow questions, answers, and comments, so generously contributed by all of you, are licensed under cc-wiki (also known as cc-by-sa): cc-wiki license You are free to Share — to copy, distribute, and transmit…
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