GitHub

Introduction

With more than 70 million users (source and other stats), GitHub is the most popular service that provides a cloud-based Git repository hosting service. Data about users’ behaviour could inspire many data science projects.

Availability and Limitations

GitHub REST API has quite comprehensive documentation. Thanks to the popularity of the API, there are available libraries in multiply programming languages.

Related works

• Influence Indexing of Developers, Repositories, Technologies and Programming Languages on Social Coding Community GitHub
• We Are Family: Analyzing Communication in GitHub Software Repositories and Their Forks
• How COVID-19 Impacted Data Science: a Topic Retrieval and Analysis from GitHub Projects’ Descriptions
• GitHub REST API vs GHTorrent vs GitHub Archive: A Comparative Study
• Categorizing the Content of GitHub README Files
• Predicting issue types on GitHub