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Link provenance record and clarify rows

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  # GitHub Stars in Context
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  A dataset of repository popularity across GitHub accounts. It links
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- **3,671,497 GitHub user accounts** to the **53,990,808 public, non-fork
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- repositories** they own, with each repository's star count.
 
 
 
 
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  Most GitHub datasets describe repositories one by one. This one keeps the
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  ownership context: every stored repository of an account, including those with
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  and `unknown` for 6. The classes are derived from the collector's logic.
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  They are not an independent check against GitHub.
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  - **Missing follower counts.** `profile_available` is false for 1,151,092
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- accounts whose profile request failed. Their `followers_count` is NULL.
 
 
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  The raw stored value is kept in `followers_count_raw` and must not be read
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  as zero followers.
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  - **One snapshot.** Star counts are as of retrieval. Per-request times were
 
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  # GitHub Stars in Context
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  A dataset of repository popularity across GitHub accounts. It links
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+ **3,671,497 GitHub user accounts** to **53,990,808 rows of public, non-fork
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+ repositories** they own, with each repository's star count. A row is one
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+ repository under one account.
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+ Provenance, checks and known limits are documented in
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+ [PROVENANCE.md](https://github.com/NaiveNeuron/github-stars-in-context/blob/main/PROVENANCE.md).
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  Most GitHub datasets describe repositories one by one. This one keeps the
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  ownership context: every stored repository of an account, including those with
 
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  and `unknown` for 6. The classes are derived from the collector's logic.
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  They are not an independent check against GitHub.
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  - **Missing follower counts.** `profile_available` is false for 1,151,092
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+ accounts whose profile fields were not obtained. Their `followers_count` is
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+ NULL. In a sample of 300 such accounts checked in November 2026, 298 still
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+ existed and 296 had followers, so the stored zeros are not real counts.
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  The raw stored value is kept in `followers_count_raw` and must not be read
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  as zero followers.
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  - **One snapshot.** Star counts are as of retrieval. Per-request times were