Github Data Research

Research on GitHub collaboration patterns.

Environment

In the repo directory, run

conda env create -f binder/environment.yml 
conda activate githubdata
jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager
conda install ipykernel
python3 -m ipykernel install --user --name=githubdata
conda deactivate

Package environment:

conda-pack

To remove kernel in jupyter

jupyter kernelspec list
jupyter kernelspec uninstall unwanted-kernel

Data Collection

Folder "data_collection" stores queries that collects data in the sample.

• Start from PyPI repositories (based on Valiev, Vasilescu, Herbsleb (2018)), track commit history of all authors including contributions to those that are not in PyPI.

• Complementary data: unreleased Python data, also need to track all author's contribution history

Exploratory Data Analysis

Folder for notebooks and results for exploratory data analysis (reduced-form).

Model Estimation

Folder for structural model and related estimation codes.

Counterfactual Analysis

Folder for codes of counterfactual Analysis