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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
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
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
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
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
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
International Monetary Fund · Open & public data
The IMF's statistical portal for World Economic Outlook, fiscal, balance-of-payments, reserves and price datasets with SDMX 2.1 and 3.0 APIs
JabRef e.V. and contributors · Citation management
Open-source, BibTeX/biblatex-native reference manager for LaTeX users with online fetchers, groups, file linking and editor integration
Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Training & fine-tuning
Python library for NumPy-style array computing with composable transformations (jit, grad, vmap, shard_map) compiled through XLA to CPU, GPU and TPU
The Julia Project · Programming languages & runtimes
Dynamically typed, JIT-compiled language for numerical and scientific computing that aims to combine high-level syntax with compiled-code speed
Payward, Inc. (Kraken) · Financial analysis & investing
REST, WebSocket and FIX interfaces to the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange for market data, spot and derivatives trading and account management
Lean FRO · Mathematical & statistical computing
Open-source functional programming language and interactive theorem prover with dependent types, the Mathlib mathematics library and VS Code tooling, stewarded by the Lean FRO
Kevin Sheppard · Econometrics & causal inference
Python package by Kevin Sheppard adding panel data, instrumental-variable, system (SUR/3SLS) and asset-pricing estimators missing from statsmodels
Massive (Polygon.io, Inc.) · Market & fundamentals data
Market data platform (renamed from Polygon.io in October 2025) with REST and WebSocket APIs, flat files and SQL access for US stocks, options, indices, forex, crypto and futures
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