name type description id integer this is unique identifier posttype integer this describes the category of the post the following values are of interest to usquestion answer other values will be ignored parentid integer this is unique identifier of the question to which this answer belongs (missing for questionscreationdate datetime this is the date of submission score integer this is the score of the post viewcount integer or empty this tells us the number of user views for this post body string this is the complete post as it is encoded in html text owneruserid id this is unique identifier of the poster if it is it is wiki question title string this is the title of the question (missing for answersacceptedanswerid id this is the id of the accepted answer (missing for answerscommentcount integer this tells us the number of comments for the post slimming the data down to chewable chunks to speed up our experimentation phasewe should not try to evaluate our classification ideas on gb file insteadwe should think of how we can trim it down so that we can still keep representable snapshot of it while being able to quickly test our ideas if we filter an xml for row tags that have creationdate of or laterwe still end up with over million posts ( , , questions and , , answers)which should be enough training data for now we also do not operate on the xml format as it will slow us down the simpler the formatthe better it is that' why we parse the remaining xml using python' celementtree and write it out to tab-separated file