Bitcoin IRC Graphs

Here are some graphs and SQL to show how to use the Bitcoin IRC data. These charts track the activity of three main developers of Bitcoin: Mike Hearn, Gregory Maxwell, and Gavin Andresen. These three developers were featured in a New York Times article about Bitcoin developers.

(1) Bitcoin Developers IRC Posts Over Time

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Bitcoin IRC D3 Contributions Graph

BITCOIN IRC D3 CONTRIBUTIONS GRAPH

This graph represents The number of posts in the Bitcoin IRC logs. The lighter green squares represent days with less posts than the darker green squares. Months go from left to right and are separated by the darker lines. Days go by columns from left to right.

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RubyGems data updated June 2016


Hello moles, the latest RubyGems data has been collected. We now have two RubyGems collections:

  • 61240: November 2015
  • 61243: June 2016

The data can be found in two places:

Tables include:

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Bitcoin-dev, Ubuntu, Perl6, Django, Puppet IRC logs are updated

Thanks to the work of my two summer research assistants Evan Ashwell & Greg Batchelor, the IRC channels for #bitcoin-dev, perl6, #ubuntu, #django, and puppet (#gen, #dev, and #razor) have been updated.

Things to know:

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All paper metadata from OSS 2016 are in FLOSSpapers.org

All metadata & citations for papers from OSS 2016 have been uploaded to FLOSSpapers.org. As I find pre-prints available online I will add those too. If you are an author and you wish to have FLOSSpapers host your pre-print, just email it to me (msquire at elon dot edu) and I'll add it to the site!

Mining Software Repositories '16 paper, slides & data

This weekend I'll be presenting at Mining Software Repositories 2016 in Austin, TX. My talk is in the data sets track, and it is entitled Data Sets: The Circle of Life in Ruby Hosting, 2003-2015(PDF). Here are the slides.

RubyGems.org collection, Nov 2015

We have added RubyGems.org data under datasource_id 61240. RubyGems.org is the official gem host for Ruby projects.

The scripts we used to collect this data are available on Github and the SQL dumps are available on our data server. Direct database access is also available. Existing database users were given access to this new database on the MySQL server, called 'Rubygems'.

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OSS 2016 The 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems

The International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS) is a long-standing international forum for researchers, practitioners from business and industry, enthusiasts, and students to present and discuss the latest trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of Free/Libre Open Source Software.

The 12th OSS Conference will take place in will take place in the city of Gothenburg, in 30 May - 02 June 2016.

Call for conributions

August 2015 Launchpad data

We have added Launchpad data under datasource_id 58458. Launchpad is a repository for projects affiliated with Ubuntu. Summer research assistant Gavan Roth wrote some scripts to collect this data.

--Download the flat files, or
--Access and query this data via the MySQL interface

Here is a query to show some of the data that is available:

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New papers added to FLOSShub

I've uploaded metadata (and when available, actual papers) for some relevant 2015 open source conferences (including the 2015 OSS conference, HICSS, and Mining Software Repositories) to FLOSShub/biblio.

There are now 1589 papers on FLOSShub/biblio. It makes a nice addition/backup/source for Google Scholar and the other larger publishing sites.

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