Open Source Software Insight!

Data Explorer • Repo Rankings • Developer Analytics • Repo Analytics • Collections • Workshop • Blog • API • Twitter

Introduction

OSS Insight is a powerful tool that provides comprehensive, valuable, and trending insights into the open source world by analyzing 5+ billion rows of GitHub events data.

OSS Insight's Data Explorer provides a new way to explore GitHub data. Simply ask your question in natural language and Data Explorer will generate SQL, query the data, and present the results visually.

OSS Insight also provides in-depth analysis of individual GitHub repositories and developers, as well as the ability to compare two repositories using the same metrics.

🎦 Video - OSS Insight: Easiest New Way to Analyze Open Source Software

Feature 1: GPT-Powered Data Exploration

Data Explorer provides a new way to discover trends and insights into 5+ billion rows of GitHub data.

Simply ask your question in natural language and Data Explorer will generate SQL, query the data, and present the results visually. It's built with Chat2Query, a GPT-powered SQL generator in TiDB Cloud.

Examples:

• Projects similar to @facebook/react
• The most interesting Web3 projects
• Where are @kubernetes/kubernetes contributors from?
• More popular questions

🎦 Video - Data Explorer: Discover insights in GitHub data with GPT-generated SQL

Feature 2: Technical Fields Analytics 👁️

• GitHub Collections Analysis

  Find insights about the monthly or historical rankings and trends in technical fields with curated repository lists.

Examples:

• Collection: Web Framework
• Collection: Artificial Intelligence
• Collection: Web3
• More ...

Welcome to add collections

👏 We welcome your contributions here! You can add a collection on our website by submitting PRs. Please create a .yml file under the collections file path.

Here is a file template that describes what you need to include. We look forward to your PRs！

• Deep Insight into some popular fields of technology

  Share with you many deep insights into some popular fields of technology, such as open source Databases, JavaScript Framework, Low-code Development Tools and so on.

  Examples:

  • Deep Insight Into Open Source Databases
  • JavaScript Framework Repos Landscape 2021
  • Web Framework Repos Landscape 2021
  • More ...

  We’ll also share the SQL commands that generate all these analytical results above each chart, so you can use them on your own on TiDB Cloud following this 10-minute tutorial.

Feature 3: Developer Analytics

Insights about developer productivity, work cadence, and collaboration from developers' contribution behavior.

• Basic:
  • Stars, behavior, most used languages，and contribution trends
  • Code (commits, pull requests, pull request size and code line changes), code reviews, and issues
• Advanced:
  • Contribution time distribution for all kind of contribution activities
  • Monthly stats about contribution activities in all public repositories

Feature 4: Repository Analytics

Insights about the code update frequency & degree of popularity from repositories' status.

• Basic:
  • Stars, forks, issues, commits, pull requests, contributors, programming languages, and lines of code modified
  • Historical trends of these metrics
  • Time cost of issues, pull requests
• Advanced:
  • Geographical distribution of stargazers, issue creators, and pull request creators
  • Company distribution of stargazers, issue creators, and pull request creators

Examples:

• React
• TiDB
• web3.js
• Ant Design
• Chaos Mesh

Feature 5: Compare Projects 🔨

Compare two projects using the repo metrics mentioned in Repository Analytics.

Examples:

• Compare Vue and React
• Compare CockroachDB and TiDB
• Compare PyTorch and TensorFlow

Contribution

We've released OSS Insight because it can do more insights about GitHub.We hope that others can benefit from the project. You are more than welcome to participate in capacity building. We are thankful for any contributions from the community.

• GitHub Discussion. Best for: help with building, discussion about OSS Insight best practices.
• GitHub Issues. Best for: bugs and errors you encounter using OSS Insight.
• GitHub PR. Best for: pull request the features you wish for OSS Insight.
  • collection You can add a collection on our website.
  • blog You are welcome to share blogs about using OSS Insight.
  • fix You can make fixes to current issues.
  • feat You are welcome to contribute if you have new feature ideas.

Contact

We have a few channels for contact:

• GitHub Discussions: You can ask a question or discuss here.
• @OSS Insight on Twitter
• mail:If you want to analyze more, please contact us ✉️

Development

• ⚙️ Setup
• 💡 How to build your own insight tool

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