This feed pulls the full history of the number of users created on Github with specific details on a small sample set of users. We will expand the number of users we pull specific details for over time (anonymized details only).

Metadata

Frequency Tolerance Earliest Collection Date Source

Data Dictionary

Column Name Description Type Mode
id Github user ID number REQUIRED
url URL of the user string REQUIRED
createdAt Date user was created Date REQUIRED
lastActivity Date of last activity Date REQUIRED
followers Number of followers number REQUIRED
following Number of users following number REQUIRED
repos Number of public repos number REQUIRED
gists Number of public gists number REQUIRED
siteAdmin Whether the user is a site admin boolean REQUIRED
company Company the user is associated with string NULLABLE
hireable Whether the user is looking to be hired boolean NULLABLE
location Location of the user string NULLABLE

Notes

We will expand the number of users we pull specific details for over time and run additional analytics on % of users that are still active. Github reveals additional details on users' companies, their locations, and their subscription status (e.g. Github Pro), which we will track over time as well.