GitHub Copilot User Feedback from Stack Overflow and GitHub Discussions

A dataset of labelled posts from Stack Overflow and discussions from GitHub Discussions related to GitHub Copilot. The data was collected by Beiqi Zhang of Wuhan University for an empirical study on the practices and challenges of using the AI coding assistant. It includes post IDs, URLs, and extracted content from both platforms.

Use Cases

• Analyze common challenges developers face when using GitHub Copilot based on the labelled posts.
• Identify patterns in developer practices and workflows with AI coding assistants based on extracted discussion data.
• Study the evolution of community support and problem-solving for AI tools across Stack Overflow and GitHub Discussions.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from two major developer community platforms, Stack Overflow and GitHub Discussions.
• Posts and discussions are specifically labelled as related to GitHub Copilot, providing focused context.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Stack Overflow and GitHub Discussions

Collection Method

Posts and discussions were collected and labelled as related to GitHub Copilot.