More than 850,000 Singaporeans are Developing Software on GitHub, Revealed by GitHub Innovation Graph
GitHub, the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform, launched its Innovation Graph, a new open data and insights platform aimed at highlighting the global and local impact of developers.
Commenting on the launch, Mike Linksvayer, VP, Developer Policy, GitHub, said: “For too long, measures of innovation have focused solely on things like patents and research papers, while policymakers and researchers have had trouble finding reliable data on global trends in software development. GitHub’s solution is the Innovation Graph.”
Key insights from the graph for Singapore (Q1 2023) include:
- More than 850,000 Singaporean developers and over 48,300 Singaporean organizations are building on GitHub
- Singaporean developers uploaded code to GitHub more than 1.5 million times
- Singaporean developers and/or organizations owned over 3.1 million repositories on GitHub
- The GitHub Innovation Graph tracks collaboration between global economies as the summation of git pushes sent and pull requests opened from one economy to the other
- Singapore’s top three collaborators were the United States, Hong Kong, and China
- JavaScript was the highest ranked programming language in Singapore based on the number of unique developers who uploaded code, followed by Python and Shell
The graph includes data going back to Q1 2020 – you may explore historical changes for Singapore here.
The Innovation Graph includes longitudinal metrics on software development for economies around the world. Launched today with a dedicated webpage and repository, it provides quarterly data on git pushes, developers, organizations, repositories, languages, licenses, topics, and economy collaborators, dating back to 2020. The platform offers a number of data visualizations, and the repository outlines GitHub’s methodology. Data for each metric (licensed CC0-1.0) is available to download.
The Innovation Graph will be useful for researchers, policymakers, and developers alike. In a research commissioned by GitHub, consultancy Tattle found that researchers in the international development, public policy, and economics fields were interested in using GitHub data but faced many barriers in obtaining and using that data. The Innovation Graph lowers these barriers, allowing researchers in other fields to also benefit from convenient, aggregated data that may have previously required third-party data providers if it was available at all.
Promoting digital transformation and well paid jobs is a key goal for many policymakers. Research indicates that open source contributions on GitHub are associated with more startups, increased innovation, and tens of billions of euros in GDP. Easily accessible data will make for more (and compelling) research, and ultimately more policies that foster developer opportunity–and more opportunity for anyone to be a developer.
Developers will be able to see and explore the broader context for their contributions, for example, how developers collaborate across the global economy, or how the particular language or topic they are interested in is trending around the world.
The Innovation Graph has been released as a data resource for community reuse, with opportunities to explore data trends, inform research, make beautiful visualizations, and for developers to show how their contributions relate to broader trends.
Over time, GitHub will continue to release new insight reports on topics of interest to policymakers, researchers, and developers.
