Wednesday 6 January 2016

Is it legal/ethical to use data grabbed from a Stack Exchange site in a paper?




For example, I download all the content of Academia@SE, later analysis it in a data mining paper, and submit the paper in the end. Is it OK to do so? Do I have to ask the permission from the administrator of the website? And does he or she have rights to forbid my academic use? Thank you.




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