Explore the seasons of software development with four full years of data
Blog post from GitHub
The GitHub Innovation Graph's Q4 2023 update provides four years of data across eight metrics, including Git pushes, repositories, developers, and programming languages, and highlights seasonal trends such as the popularity of the "Advent of Code" event, which encourages developers to explore new programming languages. The data also shows a consistent rise in the "documentation" topic, attributed to the influence of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot Chat, which may be facilitating more frequent documentation updates. The update includes changes to the Topics bump charts by excluding programming languages and GitHub profile README configuration topics to better highlight significant trends, and reclassifies the "NOASSERTION" license category as "Other" for clarity. Additionally, an explanatory note has been added to indicate that the repositories, developers, and organizations metrics include inactive entities, inviting users to delve into the comprehensive dataset using various analysis tools.