README.md

---
language:
- en
license: mit
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
- question-answering
tags:
- python
- stackoverflow
- question-answer
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: question_id
    dtype: int64
  - name: creation_date
    dtype: string
  - name: link
    dtype: string
  - name: question
    dtype: string
  - name: accepted_answer
    dtype: string
  - name: question_vote
    dtype: int64
  - name: answer_vote
    dtype: int64
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 44590624
    num_examples: 15444
  download_size: 23744659
  dataset_size: 44590624
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
---
# Description
- GitHub repository: https://github.com/EshanJayasundara/Stackoverflow-Python-Q-and-A-Extractor.
- GitHub repository contains the automated workflow for extracting the question and answer pairs from Stackoverflow.
- This dataset contains the question-answer pairs extracted from Stackoverflow using Stack Exchange API v2.3 and used following endpoints,
  - [/answers/{ids} GET](https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/questions)
  - [/questions GET](https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/answers-by-ids)
- From 2020 January 1 to Today
  ### 1. Dataset description,
    - Contains only `python` tagged question-answer pairs.
    - Each question has a vote greater tan or equal to 1.
    - Only contains the questions that have accepted answers and the corresponding accepted answers.
    - **Can contain accepted answers(~30) with negative votes.**
  ### 2. Column description,
    - `question_id` : id came from Stackoverflow.
    - `creation_date` : the date when the question was created.
    - `link` : link to the Stackoverflow page corresponding to that question-answer pair.
    - `question` : question text
    - `accepted_answer` : accepted answer text
    - `question_vote` : score/vote given for the `question` by the Stackoverflow community.
    - `answer_vote` : score/vote given for the `accepted_answer` by the Stackoverflow community.