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Alpaca (AlpacaDB, Inc.) · Financial analysis & investing
API-first US brokerage offering a Trading API, Market Data API and Broker API for stocks, ETFs, options and crypto, with paper trading
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Alpaca (AlpacaDB, Inc.) · Financial analysis & investing
API-first US brokerage offering a Trading API, Market Data API and Broker API for stocks, ETFs, options and crypto, with paper trading
Alpha Vantage Inc. · Market & fundamentals data
REST API for stock, ETF, options, forex, crypto, commodity and economic data plus fundamentals, news sentiment and technical indicators, with a free key tier and premium plans
Apache Software Foundation · Data catalogs & formats
Open columnar file format for analytical data with compression, encodings and statistics, readable by nearly every data engine and library
Kevin Sheppard · High-frequency financial analysis
Kevin Sheppard's Python package for univariate ARCH/GARCH volatility models, bootstraps, multiple-comparison procedures, unit-root and cointegration tests
arXiv (independent non-profit, formerly hosted by Cornell University) · Research dissemination
Free, moderated open-access preprint server for physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, quantitative finance, economics and related fields, with an open API and bulk access
Philip Kime and contributors · LaTeX & typesetting
LaTeX bibliography package that reimplements BibTeX formatting in LaTeX macros, with the Biber backend, Unicode sorting and multiple bibliographies
Bloomberg L.P. (FIGI Registration Authority) · Market & fundamentals data
Bloomberg's subscription workstation for market data, news, analytics, messaging and execution, with Excel integration and the BLPAPI library for C++, Java, .NET and Python
ClickHouse, Inc. · Analytical engines & OLAP
Open-source columnar OLAP database server for fast aggregations over billions of rows, with MergeTree storage, SQL and a managed ClickHouse Cloud
Connected Papers · Literature discovery & review
Visual literature-exploration tool that builds a similarity graph of papers around a seed paper, with prior and derivative works lists
Consensus · Literature discovery & review
AI search engine over peer-reviewed literature that synthesizes answers, shows a Consensus Meter for yes/no questions and summarizes studies
Crossref · Research dissemination
Membership organization that registers DOIs for scholarly content and exposes the metadata through a free public REST API, content negotiation and the paid Metadata Plus service
Databento, Inc. · Market & fundamentals data
Usage-priced market data platform with normalized order-book (MBO/MBP), trades, OHLCV and reference schemas for futures, options and equities, delivered via historical, live and batch APIs in the DBN format
PyWhy (originally Microsoft Research) · Econometrics & causal inference
Python causal-inference library organized around model, identify, estimate and refute steps, with graphical causal models for attribution, counterfactuals and root-cause analysis
DuckDB Foundation / DuckDB Labs · Analytical engines & OLAP
In-process analytical SQL database that queries Parquet, CSV and Arrow data directly from Python, R, Node or the CLI
PyWhy (originally Microsoft Research) · Econometrics & causal inference
Python library for heterogeneous treatment-effect estimation with machine learning: double ML, doubly robust learners, causal forests, meta-learners, IV and policy learning
Dwight Gunning · SEC/EDGAR & corporate filings
MIT-licensed Python library for SEC EDGAR: company and filing objects, XBRL financial statements, Form 3/4/5, 13F and proxy parsing into pandas, with the SEC identity requirement built in
Elicit · Literature discovery & review
AI research assistant that finds papers, extracts structured data from them into tables and runs systematic-review style workflows and reports
S&P Global (EViews) · Econometrics & causal inference
Commercial Windows econometrics package for time-series estimation, forecasting and macro modelling, sold as single-user, volume, University and free Student Lite editions
FirstRate Data LLC · Market & fundamentals data
Vendor of historical intraday market data (1-minute to daily bars, tick and options) for US stocks, ETFs, futures, indices, crypto and FX, delivered as zipped CSV bundles under a perpetual licence
Laurent Bergé · Econometrics & causal inference
R package for fast estimation of OLS, GLM, Poisson, IV and difference-in-differences models with many fixed effects, clustered errors, multiple estimations and publication tables
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis · Market & fundamentals data
Free economic database from the St. Louis Fed aggregating hundreds of thousands of US and international time series, with graphs, vintages (ALFRED), an Excel add-in and a keyed JSON/XML API
Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Literature discovery & review
Free scholarly search engine from Google that indexes articles, theses, books and court opinions with citation counts and author profiles
gretl developers (Allin Cottrell, Riccardo Lucchetti) · Econometrics & causal inference
Free, GPL-licensed cross-platform econometrics program with a GUI, the hansl scripting language and estimators for time series, panels and limited dependent variables
Hugging Face · Training & fine-tuning
Hosting platform for open models, datasets and Spaces demo apps built on git repositories and Xet storage, with Inference Providers, Endpoints, Jobs and an open-source Python client and CLI
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