microsoft/Data-Science-For-Beginners
10 Weeks, 20 Lessons, Data Science for All!
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Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 81% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 20
- Human commits, 365 days
- 124
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 72%
- Last commit
- Jul 17, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Jul 17, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 4 days
Responsiveness: of 1 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Most commits in the last year come from bots.
- Only 1 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
- 124 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 117
Top committers
- leestott: 81% of commits
- hyoshioka0128: 11% of commits
- sasakar: 2% of commits
- wangamber8-collab: 2% of commits
- skytin1004: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 29, 2021 to Oct 29, 2021: about 3.4k more stars than usual, peak 400 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 30, 2021 to Nov 9, 2021: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 492 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 28, 2022 to Apr 5, 2022: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 349 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 19, 2022 to May 26, 2022: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 276 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 29, 2022 to Jun 1, 2022: about 691 more stars than usual, peak 261 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 8, 2022 to Jun 17, 2022: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 269 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 30, 2023 to Feb 4, 2023: about 521 more stars than usual, peak 216 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Mar 30, 2023 to Apr 4, 2023: about 175 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jun 6, 2023 to Jun 10, 2023: about 262 more stars than usual, peak 107 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jun 26, 2023 to Jun 27, 2023: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jul 1, 2023 to Jul 6, 2023: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 303 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Oct 22, 2023 to Oct 26, 2023: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 523 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jul 12, 2024 to Jul 14, 2024: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Aug 7, 2025 to Aug 13, 2025: about 180 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jan 19, 2026 to Feb 3, 2026: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 546 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Mar 25, 2026 to Apr 2, 2026: about 294 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Apr 24, 2026 to Apr 27, 2026: about 175 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jul 6, 2026 to Jul 8, 2026: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 15, 2026 to Sep 20, 2026: about 232 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 3 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
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