Replication Package for the paper: What Characterizes a Software Leader? Identifying Leadership Practices from Practitioners' Social Media

Replication Package This repository contains the replication package for the paper titled "What Characterizes a Software Leader? Identifying Leadership Practices from Practitioners’ Social Media". Repository Contents The package contains the following artifacts: What Characterizes a Software Leader.xlsx: The master spreadsheet containing all raw and analyzed data from the study. /images/: A folder containing the high-resolution images of the statistical analyses. /json-data/: A folder containing the original JSON files extracted from the Dev Community API during data collection. Spreadsheet Description (What Characterizes a Software Leader.xlsx) The main spreadsheet is organized into the following sheets to facilitate auditing and replication: Articles_Status: A list of all articles (1,815) retrieved from the initial mining, with their classification and status (included or excluded). Extracts_Results: Contains the 116 selected articles, author demographic data, and the text excerpts (quotes) extracted by each researcher. Practices: The open coding process, mapping raw text excerpts to the initial codes. Clustering / Clustering_No_Repetition: The normalization and clustering process of the initial codes into the 104 final practices (71 recommended and 32 avoidable). Characterization_Articles: Characterization data for the 116 final articles. Characterization_Author: Characterization data for the 90 distinct authors. Calibrate_Final_KAPPA: Raw data from the calibration round used for the Cohen's Kappa calculation. Tag Sheets (#leadership, #techlead, etc.): Sheets containing the raw data for each tag extracted from the API (converted JSON).