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Exploring the Evolution of the Top 25 GitHub Projects

Exploring the Evolution of the Top 25 GitHub Projects

by Adem Ait Fonollà | May 7, 2025 | research

As part of our ongoing research, we periodically monitor GitHub to understand what is gaining traction and popularity within the community, using stars as a proxy. In May 2022, our analysis of the top 25 starred repositories revealed some surprising trends,...
Is Hugging Face Hub a good source of data for empirical studies on ML development?

Is Hugging Face Hub a good source of data for empirical studies on ML development?

by Adem Ait Fonollà | Jan 21, 2025 | AI, Community, research

The development of empirical studies in Open-Source Software (OSS) requires large amounts of data regarding software development events and developer actions, which are typically collected from code hosting platforms. Code hosting platforms are built on top of a...
Creating Representative Samples of Software Repositories

Creating Representative Samples of Software Repositories

by Adem Ait Fonollà | Oct 2, 2024 | research, Tool

In the field of empirical software engineering, the ability to analyze vast amounts of data from software repositories is crucial. With platforms like GitHub providing access to millions of repositories, researchers face the challenge of creating manageable and...
HFCommunity – A database to analyze the development of the Hugging Face community

HFCommunity – A database to analyze the development of the Hugging Face community

by Adem Ait Fonollà | Sep 21, 2022 | Community, Tool, Uncategorized

The growing AI market has generated an explosion of libraries, datasets, models and all types of AI-related software artefacts to exploit and serve such markets. Many of them released with open-source licenses to facilitate their reuse and foster collaboration efforts...
Survival Rate of GitHub Projects – An Empirical Study

Survival Rate of GitHub Projects – An Empirical Study

by Adem Ait Fonollà | Apr 25, 2022 | Community, research

As you all know, Open Source software (OSS) proposes a collaborative development model where the code is accessible and anyone can contribute. However, this very own collaborative nature becomes one of its main sources of problems, as developers abandoning the project...
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