Tags on StackOverflow

Counts of Stack Overflow questions by tag and year, covering 2008–2018. A question can have multiple tags, so summing tag counts does not give the number of distinct questions. The annual total is repeated for each tag’s row in a year.

Usage

from era_pl import load_data

data = load_data("by_tag_year")

Use from era_py import load_data for a pandas dataframe.

Format

40,518 rows and 4 columns. Column types below describe the stored Parquet data; loaders also restore categories and date types using the packaged metadata.

Column	Stored type	Description
year	int32	Year
tag	string	Tag
number	int32	Number of questions with tag during year
year_total	int32	Total number of questions across all tags during year

Related R documentation.