Questions tagged [data-explorer]

For questions about the functionalities, queries, databases and datamodel of The Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE). SEDE allows you to create and run queries against copies of the databases of popular Stack Exchange sites.

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When were comments first available on Stack Exchange?

I am curious about when comments first became available on Stack Exchange (or whatever the site was when the development occurred). I ask this because, in the Database schema documentation for the ...
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Search for comments on posts with a certain tag based on a keyword

I am trying to get the comments on posts with a specific tag which include a phrase or a keyword of interest using SEDE. Here's my first attempt: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/...
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Add option to download a message in SEDE

In SEDE, one can download the results as a CSV file, but there are no options to download a message. Feature request: Add an option to download a message in SEDE. That'd be useful for queries ...
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SQL query used to calculate staff escalation statistics doesn't take into account different tag names for international sites

This is a bug report of a SQL query used at What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I escalate them?. In the above post, status-review posts are counted using this ...
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Finding my upvotes on Data Explorer

This T-SQL finds all the questions I have answered on SO. https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1779459/questions-i-have-answered I want to determine if I upvoted the question or not (as ...
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Database schema documentation for the public data dump and SEDE

Stack Exchange releases "data dumps" of all its publicly available content roughly every three months via archive.org, and also makes that information queryable over the Internet at the ...
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Can I see other user's badge progress and/or tag progress short of doing SEDE query?

I can see my own badge/tag progress in the "Select your next badge" dialog box from the User Activity screen. For example, I can see that I'm 455/500 for a gold Copy Editor badge in ...
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The company's commitment to the data dumps, the API, and SEDE

Many words have been written around the company's commitment to the ongoing existence of the data dumps, the API, and the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE). Much of that text can be confusing or ...
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Discrepancy in Post Counts between Local MySQL Stack Overflow Database and Data Stack Exchange Query

I recently downloaded the Stack Overflow data from Stack Overflow datadump and imported it into my local MySQL database. While attempting to retrieve the total number of posts for the year 2021 using ...
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What am I supposed to do when I get what is probably the "requires external JavaScript" error for the chat domains and SEDE?

I'm suddenly getting this error in my main sites (like SO and MSE) Meta Stack Exchange requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is blocked or failed to load. Retry using another source....
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What exactly do VoteTypeId=4 (offensive) and VoteTypeId=12 (spam) mean?

According to the Database schema documentation for SEDE, the table Votes contains as VoteTypeId 4 = Offensive and 12 = Spam. The latter was mentioned, for example, here: How to find posts closed as ...
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How can I download a small data set (1 year 2023-2022) from Stack Exchange?

I want to download a small dataset for one year. I didn't find a link that allows me to download 1 year of data or the last five years' data. I tried "https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/...
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Does Stack Exchange offer any incentives related to use of their data explorer in research?

I'm interested in whether or not there have historically been this sort of partnership with research in the academic space or if it is planned for the future. This could be something like a grant, ...
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Ranking users with most edits and close votes on a specific tag

A while back I asked this question about writing a query which would rank users based on their number of close votes on posts related to a specific tag: Table of users ranked based on their number of ...
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Is there a way to find out how many edits I've made, network-wide?

I'm a prolific editor. I've made edits on a whole bunch of different sites. I'd like to know exactly how many edits I've made, network-wide. Is there a way to find out, perhaps with SEDE?
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Data Explorer throws server error when attempting to query Psychology & Neuroscience

The Stack Exchange Data Explorer lets you write SQL queries to find questions, answers, comments, users etc across the StackExchange network, but the query interface throws an error if I try to select ...
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View "people reached" data/trend through time for user

Is there a way to view a trend (graphically or tabulated) in the number of "people reached" per user per site? E.g., to see how many people a user's posts impacted monthly or annually, etc. ...
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How to retrieve posts converted into comments from Stack Overflow dump?

I am trying to write queries on the data explorer to retrieve the posts that have been converted into comments. However the votes, comments and posthistory tables have no information that shows when ...
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Table of users ranked based on their number of close votes in a specific tag

I am trying to get the list of users that have the most number of close votes (tallying each type of close votes; i.e. Duplicates, Too Broad, Need MRE, Not About Programming, etc.) in a specific tag. ...
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Some sites names shown in Data Explorer Stack Exchange doesn't match the current site name. Is this a bug or a feature?

Volume 1 : TL;DR Please fix the names of the sites in Data Explorer of Community Building, Music: Practice & Theory, Medical Sciences, Mythology and Folklore, Bricks, Cross Validated and "...
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Why is my profile image different?

When I first signed up on a Stack Exchange site and got a profile image, it was this one (see my current user card I'm actually not sure what I look like any more): Later, I got Area 51 and SEDE ...
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Add a bit column for whether a badge is retired in SEDE or a RetiredDate column

It would be nice (for example) to be able to easily filter out badges that are retired when querying SEDE for analysis purposes. A bit for it would work, or alternatively, a nullable RetiredDate. Or ...
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Why does this SEDE query think that the MathOverflow Meta is mathoverflow.meta.stackexchange.com?

I ran a query created by @peterh to find all my network posts. It works perfectly for the task, but it believes that all my posts made to MathOverflow Meta were actually made to https://mathoverflow....
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Data dump, Programmers and Software Engineering

I've removed the poll style answers in favour of open discussion. I realise now this isn't the best way to have a proper discussion about this issue - sorry to anyone who commented/voted. This is ...
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Why hasn't Music.SE's name changed on data.stackexchange? [duplicate]

Recently (~ November 6th), the name of Musical Practice and Performance was changed to Music: Practice & Theory.* But, on data.stackexchange has not changed yet: Will it be changed? *Music SE ...
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Add support for multiple results sets in Data Explorer

If you run this query in Data Explorer it would appear that both queries run since the message window reads... (1 row(s) affected) (555 row(s) affected) ...but only the first result is displayed or ...
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How can I export all results from a to multi-result-set-query to a CSV file?

In may, 2014 the support was added to download result sets from a SEDE query. Today I used this query sp_help 'tagsynonyms' which gives 6 result sets: I needed the second result off-line so I ...
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Weekly SEDE refresh may be stuck restoring Literature.SE

I'm again looking at rene's SEDE query Status of the SEDE Refresh on Sunday 03:00 UTC to check the status, which is currently (in part): . category database_id Description create_date days ago 3 ...
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Can we become our own "Northwind" for teaching SQL / databases?

In the Microsoft ecosystem there are some standard databases like Northwind ... The Northwind Traders sample database contains the sales data for a fictitious company called Northwind Traders, which ...
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Why have you hidden the "Data Explorer" tool?

Why is Data Explorer tool accessed only by clicking the word "Data" at the bottom of the page? Correct it. Change the word "Data" to "Data Explorer". Bring the word &...
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Can GPT-4 be used to do SEDE queries?

I don't know how to do SEDE queries, but I would like to explore some of the Earth Science Stack Exchange data. Once I needed a query it was done by user rene, but I have many queries to do on Earth ...
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Tag Analysis to know technology review by users

Is it possible to get analysis report on tags to know technology review. e.g. 1) Which technology has more questions (that has +5 vote up , atleast 1 from reputed person). 2) Which technology has ...
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How do I get the highest posters for a certain tag in a specific country?

I would like to get the user IDs, user names, the number of posts, and the total score for a certain tag for each user in a specific country (sorted in descending order by score). For example, in the ...
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Add tooltip with exact timestamp to 'Data updated ... ago' label on SEDE homepage

Can we add a tooltip with the exact UTC timestamp to the 'Data updated ... ago' label on the SEDE homepage? It would help indicating whether the refresh was slow (as it was today) or even incomplete. ...
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Can I search for users GitHub or Twitter info in Data.SE?

I'm curious if I can find users in Data Explorer by their GitHub username or Twitter handle. I know I can find users from their Location (Location) or their Website link (WebsiteUrl). Is there a way ...
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Where is the GitHub link in the Data Exchange Explorer located? [duplicate]

I went closely over the SEDE's fields, but couldn't find where the GitHub link is saved for a user: I ran this query on my own profile but couldn't find my GitHub account.
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How can I get the total number of posts for a user that have a certain tag in them?

User abbood (myself) has eight posts (in total) that have the tag cocoapods; six questions and two answers. I thought that this query should simply get all eight: SELECT Count(*) FROM posts p ...
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Why isn't the summation of a user's score equal to their reputation? [duplicate]

I was going over the database schema documentation and was trying to understand how the Post scoring system works. I was expecting this query: select sum(p.score) from posts p where p.OwnerUserId = ...
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How can I find users with a specific number of earned/offered bounties?

How can I find users with a specific number of earned or/and offered bounties?
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How can you view the most upvoted comments on your posts (answers and questions)?

Is there a way to view the most upvoted comments from any of my answers or questions on Stack Overflow? There are two similar questions/answers: Search for my most upvoted comments and Can I view a ...
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Find posts deleted by authors, that deleted their own account later

How can we find posts deleted by their author that deleted their own account later?
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How can I find my OpenID identifier for logging in to SEDE?

In my previous post, all the login options at SEDE seem to be linked to the same URL which doesn't work. The last one I haven't tried is OpenID. But how can I find it?
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Why isn't there any captcha asked when running a new query in SEDE?

When I tried to create a new query on https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/new, I didn't see any hint for me to work on CAPTCHA, so I just clicked Run Query, and the next page was https:/...
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Login options in SEDE do not work

Clicking the login options such as Yahoo in https://data.stackexchange.com/account/login?returnurl=/account/login?returnurl=/account/login?returnurl=/stackoverflow/queries doesn't work. Hovering ...
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Running a query in Data Explorer returns a JSON string {"captcha":true}

I am trying to run this query: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/430132/split-users-by-amount-of-reputation-digits When I hit Run Query, it redirects to a page with nothing but a JSON ...
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Auto-linkification of Tags.TagName fails when the tag name contains nonstandard characters

Run the following SEDE query: https://data.stackexchange.com/japanese/query/178382. All the tags except kyūjitai-and-shinjitai, renyōkei, あれ, and たい-form get auto-linkified. These happen to also be ...
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Data Explorer fails to properly format lists of tags with Cyrillic characters [duplicate]

There is a minor issue with how Data Explorer handles tag output. Ordinarily it replaces every one of them with a decorated and clickable link. But it seems like whenever that list includes tags with ...
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What is the difference between DisplayName and Id on the Stack Exchange Data Explorer Users table?

I am trying to pull a list of all users who have commented on an answer and tie it back to their User profile, if one exists. However, not all Comments table records have a UserId associated with them ...
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The current SEDE refresh was delayed overnight

On Saturday, January 22nd, we had a failure on a backup share that won't be fully resolved until Monday. We've immediately re-routed backups to multiple secondary locations, so that concern has been ...
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Is it possible to use SEDE to plot the pageviews for a specific question over time?

I answered a question on Chem.SE earlier today and noticed just now that it'd made it to HNQ. This got me wondering just how big the HNQ Effect™ is in terms of a jump in pageviews. I found a handful ...

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