NAICS
A standard industry classification system jointly developed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It uses hierarchical codes of two to six digits, refining from sectors down to specific industries, and is commonly used in economic statistics and industry analysis.
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In its 2026 Octoverse report, GitHub's industry dimension classification relies on a fine-tuned multilingual embedding model that categorizes public repositories created between 2022 and 2026 into NAICS sectors by name, description, topics and README, with a random sample analyzed each year.
NAICS is a standard industry classification system jointly developed by the United States, Canada and Mexico, using hierarchical codes of 2 to 6 digits.
GitHub's mapping of public repositories to NAICS sector level is essentially a form of weakly supervised inference; a single repository may span multiple sectors, and the purpose of an open-source project is not equivalent to the industry of its maintainers, so conclusions on this dimension are better suited to observing trends than to precise measurement.
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In its 2026 Octoverse report, GitHub's industry dimension classification relies on a fine-tuned multilingual embedding model that categorizes public repositories created between 2022 and 2026 into NAICS sectors by name, description, topics and README, with a random sample analyzed each year.
50%UnverifiedNAICS is a standard industry classification system jointly developed by the United States, Canada and Mexico, using hierarchical codes of 2 to 6 digits.
50%UnverifiedGitHub's mapping of public repositories to NAICS sector level is essentially a form of weakly supervised inference; a single repository may span multiple sectors, and the purpose of an open-source project is not equivalent to the industry of its maintainers, so conclusions on this dimension are better suited to observing trends than to precise measurement.
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