▲ 4 ▼ stargazers - analyze GitHub stars by spencerkimball
GitHub allows visitors to star a repo to bookmark it for later perusal. Stars represent a casual interest in a repo, and when enough of them accumulate, it's natural to wonder what's driving interest. Stargazers attempts to get a handle on who these users are by finding out what else they've starred, which other repositories they've contributed to, and who's following them on GitHub.
Article: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-our-github-stars/
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Just shows stars don't mean much when it comes to github repos, they correlate to attention rather than quality. Some quite interesting analysis they've done with this tool though.