awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets

A topic-centric list of HQ open datasets.

79.5k stars · 11.9k forks

This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 100% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. The repository holds mostly documentation, data or model files, so inactivity matters less than for a code library. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.; Only 3 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.)

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 264
Human commits, 90 days: 538
Human commits, 365 days: 649
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 1
Last release: Sep 3, 2023 (3 years ago)
Median PR merge time: 16 days

Responsiveness: of 3 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.
Only 3 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 500 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 141

Top committers

caesar0301: 100% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Mar 3, 2015 to Mar 5, 2015: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 17, 2015 to May 3, 2015: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 325 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 9, 2015 to Oct 13, 2015: about 265 more stars than usual, peak 193 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 20, 2015 to Dec 24, 2015: about 374 more stars than usual, peak 161 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 30, 2016 to Feb 19, 2016: about 5.2k more stars than usual, peak 1.3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 15, 2016 to Jun 21, 2016: about 163 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Feb 25, 2018 to Feb 26, 2018: about 95 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Apr 29, 2018 to May 4, 2018: about 164 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
May 27, 2018 to May 28, 2018: about 254 more stars than usual, peak 157 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 14, 2019 to Jan 16, 2019: about 198 more stars than usual, peak 117 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Oct 20, 2019 to Oct 21, 2019: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 98 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jan 23, 2020 to Jan 25, 2020: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Mar 22, 2022 to Mar 22, 2022: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
May 11, 2022 to May 12, 2022: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Aug 15, 2022 to Aug 18, 2022: about 576 more stars than usual, peak 273 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Nov 16, 2024 to Nov 17, 2024: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Aug 27, 2025 to Sep 30, 2025: about 3.9k more stars than usual, peak 432 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 19, 2026 to Feb 20, 2026: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Mar 3, 2026 to Mar 5, 2026: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 25, 2026 to Mar 26, 2026: about 91 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Apr 24, 2026 to May 4, 2026: about 665 more stars than usual, peak 148 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 29, 2026 to Jul 3, 2026: about 366 more stars than usual, peak 183 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Aug 20, 2026 to Aug 24, 2026: about 353 more stars than usual, peak 177 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.

6 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.1 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution

Computed 19 hours ago · method 2026.10.2