Github commit data for the article "Beyond Zipf's law: Exploring the discrete generalized beta distribution in open-source repositories"

<p><span>This dataframe corresponds to the data used in the Nowak's et al. 2024 article "Beyond Zipf&rsquo;s law: Exploring the discrete generalized beta distribution in open-source repositories" (see reference below).</span></p> <p><span>It consists of the distirbutions of number of commits per user across a number of GitHub repositories.&nbsp;<br><br>There are three columns:</span></p> <ul> <li><span>repository: the repository name</span></li> <li><span># of commits: the number of commits of a given individual</span></li> <li><span>rank: the user rank in the repository (by decreasing number of commits)<br><br></span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span>Reference:</span></strong></p> <p><span>Nowak, P., Santolini, M., Singh, C., Siudem, G., &amp; Tupikina, L. (2024). Beyond Zipf&rsquo;s law: Exploring the discrete generalized beta distribution in open-source repositories.&nbsp;<em>Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications</em>, <em>649</em>, 129927. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2024.129927">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2024.129927</a></span></p>