Understanding GitHub

It's always advisable to be more familiar with the domain before processing or analyzing any data. Hence before understanding how to extract, process, and analyze data from GitHub, we will spend some time on understanding more about GitHub, its vision, and the major features which are used across the world by software and technology enthusiasts.

As mentioned before, the core of GitHub is a web-based service for hosting Git repositories. You can think of a repository as a directory or a folder containing multiple folders or subdirectories, code files, and other assets such as images, media, documents, and so on. People build software by collaborating together on various repositories which they create and maintain. Open source principles are promoted on GitHub and various open source projects and software are developed, improved, and maintained using GitHub. Anyone can be an open source contributor by talking to the members of a project maintained in a repository...