The data companion
Monday to Sunday / SEP 14 – 20, 2026
THE WHOLE
WEEK.
The edition makes a choice. Here is the record around it: every project seen on the boards, where it appeared, and how much attention it picked up.
01 / Every observed project
The shape of the week
Every project seen on the boards this week, plotted by relative growth against days on the daily board.
Further right: faster growth.
Growth is relative to the project's starting star count. A small repo can move far on a modest number of new stars.
Higher up: more appearances.
The vertical axis counts days on the daily board. A project at zero may still have appeared on the weekly or monthly board.
Look beyond the corner.
The shortlist uses more than these two axes. A specialist can earn its place without sitting at the top right.
02 / The shortlist
A PLACE
ON THE BOARD.
A week's total can hide a very different journey.
One position per day.
Points are recorded placements on GitHub's daily board, Monday to Sunday.
Higher means closer to number one.
These are GitHub's daily ranks, not the shortlist order — a project high on GitHub's list can sit lower in the shortlist.
Lines are guidance.
Connecting lines guide the eye between recorded positions; they do not establish a rank on an unobserved day.
03 / Largest observed gains
Where the stars went
New stars this week, not lifetime totals — a giant that gained few sits below a small project that boomed.
Counted in stars.
The twelve biggest gains of the week, ranked in absolute stars rather than percentages. An established project can lead here while a smaller one grows faster in relative terms.
A bar is not a shortlist place.
The shortlist weighs relative growth and board presence together, so some bars mark projects the machine passed over. Hover a bar to see whether it made the list.
Gains need two sightings.
The bars count the difference between captured star totals inside the week; a project captured only once shows no bar.
What this record measures
These views use the boards captured during the edition's week. A star gain is the difference between a project's first and last observed totals inside that window. A project seen only once has no measured change between observations.