Measuring the impact of HackerNews on open source GitHub projects

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Measuring the impact of HackerNews on open source GitHub projects

Carmen Jaramillo · Bin Bin Lee · Brian Zelip

Data Mining LEEP Day, Fall 2014

Hypothesis

Posting information about a project on Hacker News makes a big impact on open source projects.

...we set out to detail this impact.

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Method

Pick 5 public projects Identify the project's initial post on HN Collect before & after data via GitHub & GitHub Archive APIs Present findings

The before & after evidence

Increases in...

  • forks
  • stars
  • watchers
  • pull requests

Data collection work

  • read about and practiced the 2 GH APIs
    • GitHub API via command line, see https://developer.github.com/v3/
    • GitHubArchive API via Google Big Query, see http://www.githubarchive.org

#*&@% Snafus

  • Obtaining precise before & after data was difficult

DATA!

Issues Filed

Nightmare SweetAlert Postgres Grid Bootstrap Before 4 2 0 na na Day of 1 11 1 na na After 3 13 0 30 45

DATA!

Pull Requests

Nightmare SweetAlert Postgres Grid Bootstrap Before 1 5 0 0 0 Day of 1 5 0 0 0 After 4 38 0 24 92