TY - JOUR
T1 - A longitudinal dataset of five years of public activity in the Scratch online community
AU - Hill, Benjamin Mako
AU - Monroy-Hernández, Andrés
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (grant DRL-1417663). We thank the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab for creating Scratch, creating and continuing to support the Scratch online community over many years, and generously allowing us to help share their data with other researchers. In particular, thanks to Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, and Sayamindu Dasgupta for helping us plan the details of this release and for feedback on this manuscript. We also deeply appreciate the help of everybody who helped test these data since an initial 'beta' release that began in 2014. In particular, we appreciate feedback from Sayamindu Dasgupta and Benjamin Berg at MIT, and Jeff Nickerson and his lab at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2017/1/31
Y1 - 2017/1/31
N2 - Scratch is a programming environment and an online community where young people can create, share, learn, and communicate. In collaboration with the Scratch Team at MIT, we created a longitudinal dataset of public activity in the Scratch online community during its first five years (2007-2012). The dataset comprises 32 tables with information on more than 1 million Scratch users, nearly 2 million Scratch projects, more than 10 million comments, more than 30 million visits to Scratch projects, and more. To help researchers understand this dataset, and to establish the validity of the data, we also include the source code of every version of the software that operated the website, as well as the software used to generate this dataset. We believe this is the largest and most comprehensive downloadable dataset of youth programming artifacts and communication.
AB - Scratch is a programming environment and an online community where young people can create, share, learn, and communicate. In collaboration with the Scratch Team at MIT, we created a longitudinal dataset of public activity in the Scratch online community during its first five years (2007-2012). The dataset comprises 32 tables with information on more than 1 million Scratch users, nearly 2 million Scratch projects, more than 10 million comments, more than 30 million visits to Scratch projects, and more. To help researchers understand this dataset, and to establish the validity of the data, we also include the source code of every version of the software that operated the website, as well as the software used to generate this dataset. We believe this is the largest and most comprehensive downloadable dataset of youth programming artifacts and communication.
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U2 - 10.1038/sdata.2017.2
DO - 10.1038/sdata.2017.2
M3 - Article
C2 - 28140385
AN - SCOPUS:85011277246
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 4
JO - Scientific data
JF - Scientific data
M1 - 170002
ER -