A Representative User-centric GitHub Developers Dataset for Malicious Account Detection

Using GitHub APIs, we construct an unbiased dataset of over 10 million GitHub users. The data was collected between Jul. 20 and Aug. 27, 2018, covering 10,000 users. Each data entry is stored in JSON format, representing one GitHub user, and containing the descriptive information in the user’s profile page, the information of her commit activities and created/forked public repositories. We provide a sample of dataset in 'Github_dataset_sample.json'. If you are interested in using the full dataset, please contact chenyang AT fudan.edu.cn to obtain the full dataset for research purposes only. Please cite the following paper when using the dataset: Qingyuan Gong, Yushan Liu, Jiayun Zhang, Yang Chen, Qi Li, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, Pan Hui. Detecting Malicious Accounts in Online Developer Communities Using Deep Learning. To appear: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.