Title
Geo-locating the knowledge transfer in StackOverflow
Abstract
Stack Overflow can be seen as an information market for software engineering knowledge in which the goods that are exchanged are answers to questions and the rewards are score points and badges that contribute to a users reputation. By analyzing the transactions in Stack Overflow we can get a glimpse of the way in which the different geographical regions in the world contribute to the knowledge market represented by the website. In this paper we aggregate the knowledge transfer from the level of the users to the level of geographical regions and learn that Europe and North America are the principal and virtually equal contributors; Asia comes as a distant third, mainly represented by India; and Oceania contributes less than Asia but more than South America and Africa together.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2501535.2501540
Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Social Software Engineering
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
north america,software engineering knowledge,users reputation,south america,different geographical region,geographical region,knowledge transfer,knowledge market,information market,stack overflow,geo location,social software engineering
Conference
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dennis Schenk170.50
Mircea Lungu254539.17