---
language:
- en
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- time-series-forecasting
tags:
- temporal-point-process
- event-sequences
- github
- software-engineering
- developer-workflows
- marked-temporal-point-process
size_categories:
- n<1K
---

# GitHub User Event Streams

Curated event sequences from individual GitHub developers, designed for temporal point process (TPP) and marked temporal point process (MTPP) modeling. Each sequence captures a single developer's activity across multiple repositories over a one-week window.

## Dataset Description

- **Source:** [GH Archive](https://www.gharchive.org/) raw JSON dumps
- **Time window:** June 1 - 7, 2024
- **Grouping:** Events grouped by user (actor)
- **Sequences:** ~382
- **Sequence length:** 80-100 events per sequence
- **Time unit:** hours
- **Language:** English only

## Schema

Each record is a dictionary with 8 fields:

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `seq_idx` | int | Sequence index |
| `seq_len` | int | Number of events in the sequence |
| `description` | str | User name, active repos (with descriptions), and event window |
| `metadata` | str (JSON) | `actor_login`, `num_repos`, `top_repos`, `time_unit` |
| `time_since_start` | list[float] | Time since the first event (in `time_unit`, default hours) |
| `time_since_last_event` | list[float] | Time since the previous event (in `time_unit`, default hours) |
| `type_event` | list[str] | Event type labels (see below) |
| `type_text` | list[str] | Natural language description of each event |

## Event Types (8 categories)

| Label | Description |
|---|---|
| `issue_opened` | New issue filed |
| `issue_closed` | Issue resolved/closed |
| `pr_opened` | Pull request opened |
| `pr_merged` | Pull request merged |
| `push` | Code pushed (with commit messages) |
| `release` | Release published |
| `pr_reviewed` | PR approved or changes requested |
| `comment` | Comment on issue, PR, or review |

## Curation Filters

Sequences are selected to represent moderately active developers working across a focused set of repositories:

| Filter | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `min-raw-events` | 50 | Min kept-type events in archive (pre-classification) |
| `max-raw-events` | 300 | Max kept-type events in archive (pre-classification) |
| `min-events` | 80 | Min classified events per sequence |
| `max-events` | 100 | Max classified events (skip, not truncate) |
| `min-unique-types` | 5 | At least 5 distinct event types |
| `min-repos` | 2 | Active in at least 2 repos |
| `max-repos` | 5 | Active in at most 5 repos |
| `min-avg-text-len` | 150 | Min average text length per event |
| `max-type-fraction` | 0.5 | No single event type >50% of events |
| `require-english` | true | All event texts must be in English (non-Latin script detection) |

Additional processing:
- Bot users are excluded (detected by name patterns like `[bot]`, `dependabot`, etc.)
- Consecutive duplicate events (same type + text) are deduplicated

## Key Difference from Repository Events

| | User Events | Repo Events |
|---|---|---|
| Grouping | By developer | By repository |
| Cross-repo | Yes (2-5 repos) | No (single repo) |
| Text perspective | Mentions repository name | Mentions actor name |
| Use case | Developer workflow modeling | Project activity modeling |

## Example

```json
{
  "seq_idx": 0,
  "seq_len": 90,
  "description": "GitHub user alice: active in org/repo-a (A web framework for Rust), org/repo-b Event window: June 02 - 07, 2024.",
  "metadata": "{\"actor_login\": \"alice\", \"num_repos\": 2, \"top_repos\": [\"org/repo-a\", \"org/repo-b\"], \"time_unit\": \"hours\"}",
  "time_since_start": [0.0, 0.004, ...],
  "time_since_last_event": [0.0, 0.004, ...],
  "type_event": ["pr_reviewed", "pr_merged", "push", ...],
  "type_text": ["PR approved in org/repo-a: Add new feature...", ...]
}
```

## Intended Use

- Training and evaluating temporal point process models
- Studying individual developer workflow patterns across repos
- Benchmarking next-event prediction and event forecasting
- Modeling marked temporal point processes with rich text marks

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

```bibtex
@dataset{github_user_events_2024,
  title={GitHub User Event Streams},
  author={XiaoBB},
  year={2024},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/XiaoBB/github_user_events},
  note={Curated from GH Archive, June 2024}
}
```