How Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from a Natural Experiment on GitHub

Data set for the ICSE 2021 paper "How Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from a Natural Experiment on GitHub". Code is available on GitHub (link). Please note that the file "commits_reduced.json" is not part of this data set due to its large size and Zenodo's file size limit of 50GB. You can compute the file using this script (link) and GHTorrent's latest data set (link). L. Moldon, M. Strohmaier and J. Wachs, "How Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from a Natural Experiment on GitHub," in 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Madrid, ES, 2021 pp. 549-561. doi: 10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00058 keywords: {gamification, behavior, software engineering, natural experiment, github} url: https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00058