GitHub User-Repository Bipartite Network
A GitHub (user-repository starring/watching network) dataset of 177,386 nodes and 440,237 edges, collected by KONECT via GitHub API. Each record contains directed: False, weighted: False, temporal: False. Bipartite network of GitHub users and repositories — edges represent starring or watching relationships.. Suitable for open source collaboration analysis, bipartite network analysis, software ecosystem research.
Cite this dataset at
github-konect.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 177,386 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
github-konect- Authors
- Chacon, Scott
- Year
- 2009
- Source paper
- The 2009 GitHub contest
- License
- CC BY-SA 2.0 Germany (as stated by KONECT) (LicenseRef-CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE)
- Records
- 177,386
- Nodes
- 177,386
- Edges
- 440,237
- Nodes are
- user / repository
- Edges are
- starring/watching
- Attributes
- nodes have attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2013 (2010s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://konect.cc/networks/github/ unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 2.9 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{chacon2009,
title = {The 2009 GitHub contest},
author = {Chacon, Scott},
year = {2009},
note = {https://github.com/blog/466-the-2009-github-contest, July 2009.}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Chacon, S. (2009). GitHub User-Repository Bipartite Network [Data set]. https://github-konect.echo.directory/
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Chacon, Scott. GitHub User-Repository Bipartite Network. 2009, github-konect.echo.directory/.