'Map of GitHub' maps over 400,000 GitHub projects to clearly show the relationships between projects



GitHub, the world's largest software development platform, is said to have over 400,000 projects at the time of writing. Developer

Andrei Kashcha has published a ' Map of GitHub ' that maps the projects on GitHub.

Map of GitHub
https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/

When you access the 'Map of GitHub,' you will see the following screen. According to Kashcha, the names of countries on the map, such as 'PlusPlus Nation,' 'Pythonia,' and 'PowerShell Land,' are fictitious names generated by ChatGPT based on common themes between projects, such as 'programming language,' 'technology,' and 'domain.'



When I expanded one of them, 'Cloudderra,' I saw place names such as 'AWS,' 'Serverlessland,' and 'NginxLand.'



If you zoom in further, you'll see dots representing the myriad projects on GitHub. According to Kashcha, the closer these dots are to each other, the more similar the projects are, and the size of the dots changes depending on how many 'stars' the project has earned.



Clicking on a project will show a description of that project and link to other related projects.



You can also enter a specific project name in the box at the top left of the screen to jump to the location of that project on the map. This time, I searched for the command line tool ' yt-dlp '.



By using Map of GitHub, you can see at a glance information such as ' obs-studio is closely related to yt-dlp' or ' Jellyfin and yt-dlp are related.'



According to Kashcha, when building Map of GitHub, they used GitHub's public dataset to analyze the breakdown of approximately 350 million stars from January 2020 to March 2023. In addition, they calculated

the Jaccard similarity between each project and divided the projects using cluster analysis .

In addition, the data was converted to GeoJSON format for map rendering using MapLibre , and tiles were generated using tippecanoe .

'I prefer visually understandable maps like Map of GitHub over flat maps,' Kashcha said. 'If you have any feedback on the design of Map of GitHub, please share it with us.'

The source code for Map of GitHub is available at the following link:

anvaka/map-of-github: Inspirational Mapping
https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-github

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