The repository contains the replication pacakge for the paper "Understanding information diffusion about open-source projects on Twitter, HackerNews, and Reddit" in CHASE 2023.

replication_main_socialmedia_oss.Rmd (main replication pacakge)
replication_validation.Rmd (robustness check package)

The repository contains the open dataset for social media posts that mention open source projects in R and Python ecosystems.

raw_data_repo2media.zip

Unzip "raw_data_repo2media.zip", and obtain two files "repo2parsed_social_media_list_com_Python_release.json" and "repo2parsed_social_media_list_com_R_release.json", which corresponds to projects in R and Python ecosystem apiece.

Each json file contains a dictionary, with the key being the project repo_slug (e.g. mjskay/tidybayes), and the value being a list of social media posts. Each post was represented by a list of length four, with the meaning of each item shown below:

item[0]: link to the social media post.
item[1]: time when the post was created.
item[2]: the platform where the post was on.
item[3]: the corresponding project (same as the key).