If I may interject a small, shameless self-promotion, we recently published a paper looking at exactly this using GitHub data [0]. Lots of caveats, academic lim

If I may interject a small, shameless self-promotion, we recently published a paper looking at exactly this using GitHub data [0]. Lots of caveats, academic limitations abound of course, but it may be of interest to some. [0] R Soc Open Sci. 2016 Apr; 3(4): 160007 https://dx.doi.org/10.1098%2Frsos.160007 https://dx.doi.org/10.1098%2Frsos.160007