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sumitaalapatt/github-issues-dataset

GitHub Issues Dataset Dataset Description This dataset contains 40 public GitHub issues collected from a repository of choice.Although 100 issues were requested from the GitHub API, pull requests were excluded, reducing the dataset to 40 true issues. It includes metadata about each issue, such as the author, creation date, labels, and content, as well as derived fields for analysis. The dataset was created as part of a Task 1 Assessment for a data course, to… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/sumitaalapatt/github-issues-dataset.

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GitHub Issues Dataset

Dataset Description

This dataset contains 40 public GitHub issues collected from a repository of choice. Although 100 issues were requested from the GitHub API, pull requests were excluded, reducing the dataset to 40 true issues.

It includes metadata about each issue, such as the author, creation date, labels, and content, as well as derived fields for analysis.

The dataset was created as part of a Task 1 Assessment for a data course, to demonstrate:

—API data collection
—Data augmentation
—Publishing datasets on Hugging Face Hub

Dataset Features

Feature Name	Type	Description
`id`	int64	Unique identifier of the GitHub issue
`title`	string	Issue title
`body`	string	Full text description of the issue
`author`	string	GitHub username of the issue creator
`labels`	list of string	Labels/tags associated with the issue
`created_at`	timestamp[ns, tz=UTC]	Date and time the issue was created
`comments_count`	int64	Number of comments reported by GitHub API
`url`	string	Direct link to the GitHub issue
`year`	int32	Year extracted from `created_at`
`month`	int32	Month extracted from `created_at`
`title_length`	int64	Number of characters in the title
`body_length`	int64	Number of characters in the body
`actual_comments`	int64	Count of comments fetched via API

Data Collection Method

—Data was collected using the GitHub Issues API (requests library in Python).
—Only public issues were retrieved; no private data or personally identifiable information was included.
—Derived fields (year, month, title_length, body_length) were added for analysis purposes.
—actual_comments was fetched from the issue comments endpoint to supplement the original comments_count.

Licensing

—Data comes from public GitHub repositories, which are governed by GitHub’s Terms of Service.
—This dataset itself is released under the MIT License, allowing reuse and modification.

Limitations

—Small sample size: 40 issues only (after filtering out pull requests); not representative of all GitHub repositories.
—Possible labeling bias, as labels depend on repository maintainer conventions.
—Only issues in English were collected.
—No guarantees on completeness; the dataset may contain truncated issue bodies.

Ethical Considerations

—Only public data used.
—No private, sensitive, or personally identifiable information collected.
—Compliant with ethical and legal standards for open-source data use.

References

—GitHub API: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/issues/issues
—Hugging Face datasets documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets