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Who Do You Think You Are? Creating RSE Personas from GitHub Interactions
Felicity Anderson, Julien Sindt, Neil Chue Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05390 https://

Who Do You Think You Are? Creating RSE Personas from GitHub Interactions
We describe data-driven RSE personas: an approach combining software repository mining and data-driven personas applied to research software (RS), an attempt to describe and identify common and rare patterns of Research Software Engineering (RSE) development. This allows individuals and RS project teams to understand their contributions, impact and repository dynamics - an important foundation for improving RSE. We evaluate the method on different patterns of collaborative interaction behaviour…