Quora on Snowflake Data Marketplace

Quora on Snowflake Data Marketplace

The Quora Data Program is now available via the Snowflake Data Marketplace. Here are some example Snowflake queries from our Automotive dataset which surface popular and relevant content.

Example 1

TITLE

What were the most-viewed Quora questions about Tesla in 2020?

DESCRIPTION (Optional)

Retrieves any questions with “Tesla” in the title, using a case-insensitive search, that were published in the year 2020, ordered by descending view count.

QUERY

select * from quora_automotive_questions
where title ilike '%Tesla%'
and published between '2020-01-01' and '2021-01-01'
order by view_count desc;

 

Example 2

TITLE

What were the most-answered questions in the Cars & Automobiles topic overall in 2020?

DESCRIPTION (Optional)

Returns the 10 questions with the highest answer count. 

QUERY

select * from quora_automotive_questions
order by answer_count desc
limit 10;

 

Example 3

TITLE

What are the most-answered questions about Electric Vehicles on Quora?

DESCRIPTION (Optional)

Returns questions tagged with Quora’s “Electric Vehicles” topic, ordered by answer count. 

QUERY

select * from question_topics 
where topic_name = 'Electric Vehicles'
order by answer_count desc
limit 10;


Data Dictionary

Below is the data dictionary for Quora on the Snowflake Data Marketplace.

Element or Attribute Name

Description

Element or Attribute Name

Description

Id

Unique ID of the quora

QuestionId

Unique ID of the question

AnswerId

Unique ID of the answer

CommentId

Unique ID of the comment

Published

The date/time the question/answer/comment was published.

Inserted

The date/time the review was inserted into the BoardReader database (GMT)

Title

The question title

Content

The body of the answer/comment

Type

Type of the post. Possible values: 'question', 'answer', 'comment'

CreationTime

The date/time the question/answer/comment was created.

Language

The language of the question/answer/comment text

Url

Url of the question/answer/comment

Topics

Where available, list of the topics

Topics/Topic/TopicId

ID of the topics

Topics/Topic/TopicUrl

URL of the topics

Topics/Topic/TopicName

Name of the topics

Topics/Topic/Type

Type of the topics

Author/UserId

Where available, ID of the author

Author/UserName

Where available, Name of the author

Author/UserProfileUrl

Where available, profile url of the author

Author/ProfileImgUrl

Where available, profile image url of the author

Author/ShortBio

Where available, short bio of the author

Author/AllWorkCredentials

Where available, work credentials of the author

Author/AllSchoolCredentials

Where available, school credentials of the author

Author/LanguageCredentials

Where available, language credentials of the author

Author/Location

Where available, location of the author

Author/KnowsAbout/TopicId

Where available, ID of the topic

Author/KnowsAbout/AnswerCount

Where available, answer count

Author/KnowsAbout/Type

Where available, type

Author/KnowsAbout/TopicUrl

Where available, URL of the topic

Author/KnowsAbout/TopicName

Where available, name of the topic

Author/TopicCredentials/TopicId

Where available, ID of the topic

Author/TopicCredentials/Credential

Where available, credential of the topic

Author/TopicCredentials/Type

Where available, type of the topic

Author/TopicCredentials/TopicUrl

Where available, URL of the topic

Author/TopicCredentials/TopicName

Where available, name of the topic

ViewCount

question/answer view count

ShareCount

answer share count

CommentCount

answer comment count

UpvoteCount

answer/comment upvote count

FollowCount

question follow count

AnswerCount

question answer count