Sep 2024
StackExchange Research Pipeline
Built for a study on what makes a Stack Overflow answer good, since upvotes and being marked accepted turn out not to be the same signal.
Stack
Python, pandas, XML, py7zr, Data Engineering
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It pulls the raw StackExchange archives apart, posts, users, votes, comments, badges, and exports them into tables you can actually run statistics on instead of scrolling through.
The numbers
- Architecture
- Python and pandas pipeline over XML archives extracted from .7z files, with malformed-line recovery and file-existence checks.
- Output
- Aggregates posts, users, votes, comments, and badges into structured CSV files.