so13m

so13m is a dataset containing 13m discussion threads from StackOverflow. The origin of the data is the StackExchange data dump from between January 2014 and December 2022. The threads cover a multitude of topics. This dataset serves as a natural language and (often) accompanying code in the domain of software engineering. Its inclusion could help downstream tasks depending on generating or understanding natural language.

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so13m file list

• so13m.pkl -- a pickle file that is a dictionary for stackoverflow's posts with key = post id and value = stackoverflow post
• so13m.json.gz -- a compressed version of json file that is a dicrionary for stackoverflow's posts with key = post id and value = stackoverflow post
• stackoverflow_txtfiles.pkl -- a pickle file that is a list of id of stackoverflow's post
• train.bin; val.bin -- bin files for traning and fine-tuning models

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so13m dataset details

We provide the size of our dataset in the following table:

Config	Value
number of tokens	10,495,518,108
number of Stack Overflow Posts	13,071,148
megabytes after processing	16,695

We tokenize our data using scripts provided in our github repository.