Mining GitHub for the greater good

Alex Chistyakov, ITMO University

Outline- The notion of nonsense

- The formal definition of open data

- A word on GitHub

- (Not so) numerous rants

- A bit of the greater good finally

- Lame excuses

Meet the gopher

The gopher knows the drill- A Russian proverb says:

- “Every gopher pretends to be an agriculture engineer”

- And every taxi driver knows hot to run a state (at least in

Russia)

What is open data?- “Explain me like I’m 5 yrs old”

- Basically, any data available under an open license

The gopher steps in- The semantic web

- RDF (something XML-based)

XML is the Vietnam of CS- A moment of silence for my lost friends

- I can tell a SAX parser from a DOM parser

- Clearly have a PTSD

GitHub- The home of Octocat

- The largest social network of IT and CS professionals

- Lots of open source codez (yum-yum)

GitHub (open?) data- https://www.githubarchive.org

- Is it even open?

- Google BigQuery

On to the nonsense- TIOBE index

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIOBE_index

- https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index

On to the nonsense

I want my data back!

Schrödinger’s Perl

‘S

Questions?- Please don’t beat me

- Feel free to email me at alexclear@gmail.com

- My Skype ID is demeliorator

- I have a Telegram channel

http://t.me/lhommequipleure

Thank you!- A good book is your best friend:

- “Java and XML” by Brett McLaughlin

- “Practical RDF” by Shelley Powers

- “Guerilla Warfare” by Ernesto Guevara de la Serna