GitHub, the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform,today announced the launch of the GitHub Innovation Graph, an open data and insights platform aimed at highlighting the global and local impact of developers.
Commenting on the announcement, Mike Linksvayer, VP of Developer Policy at GitHub, said: “For too long, measures of innovation have focused solely on things like patents and research papers, while policymakers and researchers have had trouble finding reliable data on global trends in software development. GitHub’s solution is the Innovation Graph.
“We’re releasing the Innovation Graph as a data resource for community reuse, and are excited to see what you build! We think there are opportunities to explore data trends, inform research, make beautiful visualizations, and for developers to show how their contributions relate to broader trends,” he added.
The Innovation Graph includes longitudinal metrics on software development for economies around the world. It includes a webpage and repository and provides quarterly data on git pushes, developers, organizations, repositories, languages, licenses, topics, and economy collaborators, dating back to 2020. The platform offers a number of data visualizations, repository outlines, and methodology. The GitHub Innovation Graph includes data going back to Q1 2020.
With the introduction of the Innovation Graph, new data and insights into India’s software development ecosystem have been made available. Captured in the first quarter of 2023, these highlights underscore the significance of India in the world of coding and software innovation:
- More than 11,400,000 Indian developers and over 440,600 Indian organizations are building on GitHub
- Indian developers uploaded code to GitHub more than 12.8 million times
- Indian developers and/or organizations owned over 29.5 million repositories on GitHub
- The GitHub Innovation Graph tracks collaboration between global economies as the summation of git pushes sent and pull requests opened from one economy to the other:
- India’s top three collaborators were the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany
- JavaScript was the highest-ranked programming language in India based on the number of unique developers who uploaded code, followed by Python and Java
In research commissioned by GitHub, consultancy Tattle found that researchers in the international development, public policy, and economics fields were interested in using GitHub data but faced many barriers in obtaining and using that data.. GitHub Innovation Graph intends to lower those barriers. The Innovation Graph will be useful for researchers, policymakers, and developers alike. Researchers in other fields will also benefit from convenient, aggregated data that may have previously required third-party data providers if it was available at all.
Over time, GitHub will continue to release new insight reports on topics of interest to policymakers, researchers, and developers.
