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arthurk on June 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Analyzing Django requirement files on GitHub

Any reason why you didn't exclude forks from this data?

minimaxir on June 8, 2017 [–]

It doesn't seem possible to reliably identify forks from the BigQuery GitHub dataset (you could estimate by deduping repos of the same name), which seems like a weakness.

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