About Git Awards

I love feedback, if you have any questions or comments, send me a tweet: @vdaubry

FAQ

Ranking questions

How do you calculate my ranking?

First your score is computed for each language using this formula:

              sum(stars) + (1.0 - 1.0/count(repositories))

Then you are ranked according to your score compared to other developers with repositories in the same language or in the same location (by city, by country or worldwide).

If you're interested in the ranking you should have a look at the SQL query that generates the ranking table: rank.sql

How did you get the data?

Git Awards retrieves data from 2 sources:

For a detailed explanation of how the data was processed, see the project readme: https://github.com/vdaubry/github-awards

Why are some of my stars missing?

We get the number of stars for each repo from GitHub Archive. Most likely the data for some of your repos are not up to date. We plan to add GitHub connect and allow you to ask for a refresh. In the meantime you can reach me on Twitter if some of your data is not accurate: @vdaubry

Can't you already do that with GitHub search?

The GitHub search is great and you should use it everytime it can answer your question. However there are some things that can't be done with GitHub search:

The main difference is that you can't search for YOUR ranking with GitHub search.
You cannot search for top users by total number of stars.
Location on GitHub is a plain text field, so if you search for users in "San Francisco", you won't find users with location "SF, CA" or any other variations. You cannot search for a user by country if they have only filled in their city.

Git Awards geocodes user locations, so provided you filled your city in your location, you can have your ranking in your city, in your country, and worldwide.

Why is my organization not shown?

At the moment I have excluded organizations from the ranking calculation in order to have a user only ranking. If you would like to have an organization ranking send me a tweet and we'll talk about it.

General questions

Who am I?

I'm vincent daubry, I'm a Ruby developer living in Paris. You can find more about me and my project on GitHub.

I think this is fun, how can I help?

There are many simple things that can help this project greatly:

Send a tweet supporting this project.
You are probably sitting next to another developer right now, tell them about Git Awards.
If you want to contribute to the project, that's amazing! Open an issue on GitHub and let's talk about it.

What about privacy?

I care a lot about this project not being creepy. It doesn't display your name or your email, you cannot search for someone by name or get access to their email. Only GitHub username, avatar, repository list, location, and repository language. Though we don't display it, the database might contain information already publicly available on your GitHub profile:

Email
Full name
Location
Picture (avatar)
Website or blog URL
Company

If you want to edit or remove any of this information, you can reach me on twitter.