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brown9-2
What timezone does that data in the daily and hourly graphs reflect?
jessaustin
If it's like most other parts of Github, it's based on the timezone recorded for each particular commit. That is, if you're in PST while I'm in CST (or at least our respective development environments think that) and we make a commit simultaneously, your commit activity will "occur" two hours before mine.

Github is a global company, so it would be surprising to see such a perfect "working day" profile on that graph if local timezone were not taken into account.

brown9-2
Agreed that would be the ideal way to present the data, but was curious if that was really the case since the pushes start climbing at 7am and fall off at 3pm.
bennyg
Almost mimics my usual day to a t.
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pdq
Kudos to the coders who built this interactive Infographic. Very impressive.
fidz
I wonder how they make the globe
rayshan
Looks like they're using a custom D3 build.
octo_t
One thing on this that surprises me is that the Rust repo has the second highest number of issues closed out of any repo on github, after homebrew.
idProQuo
While I'm sure this does indicate that the Rust guys are pretty industrious, I feel like judging a project by how many issues it's closed is like judging it by how many lines of code it has.
kibwen
I'm not sure if it's much of a compliment, but it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that we have a lot of bugs. :) I guess the good news is that we're apparently working damn hard to squash them!
octo_t
closing issues is good!! you guys work really hard and rust is awesome!

its cool to see a language being iterated on so publicly :)

midas007
Wow, github is all mostly grown up now. Hundred staff or so.

Three 🍻 (:beers:) !

imbriaco
We actually have more like 238 Hubbers. You can see us at https://github.com/humans.txt or https://github.com/about/team.
rikf
It seems like only the early employees get cool nickname I thought github has an eglatarian culture?
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jbarnette
Pretty much only the early employees remember where that humans.txt is stashed.
midas007
Nice! :)

Are there still the team sports leagues with/between other shops?

imbriaco
I know a bunch of folks in San Francisco compete in a soccer league with some other area tech companies. And there's always our annual dodgeball tournament, so I guess that's a yes! :)
midas007
Cool. And a fellow ops man. (Indie SA-SRE here.)

Edit - Btw, what's that octothinker?

bennyg
It's so sad to see meet ups and drink-ups from every state surrounding Alabama, but not actually in Alabama. I take great pride from being in this state my entire life, and I'd like to start something here.
jbarnette
I wouldn't be surprised if a few GitHubbers dropped by Huntsville sometime this summer. Watch the blog.
bennyg
That would be awesome. I'm originally from Huntsville but in Birmingham right now - I might try to organize some sort of unofficial deal here. There's a surprising amount of hackers and makers here from what I've seen around the internet and talks with my coworkers (just moved to bham).
larkinrichards
A lot of people(airbnb comes to mind) doing these now, cool to see one from GitHub.

I don't know if there is a bug with the globe but that seemed pretty weak to me-- not enough data and random points get highlighted. Anyone else find it a little lacking-- kind of like a silly "let's include a d3 globe just cause we can"?

qq66
These graphics/charts are beautiful. Any more details on how they were made?
gulbrandr
The data seems to be coming from these URLs:

http://octoverse.github.com/data/totals.csv

http://octoverse.github.com/data/shipped-drinkups.csv

http://octoverse.github.com/data/requested-sponsorships.csv

http://octoverse.github.com/data/daily-activity.csv

http://octoverse.github.com/data/sample-events.csv

http://octoverse.github.com/data/world-110m.json

http://octoverse.github.com/data/world-wo-a-110m.json

and displayed with d3.js (see http://octoverse.github.com/javascripts/all.js)