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OurResearch · Literature discovery & review
Open catalog of the global research system: works, authors, sources, institutions and topics under CC0, served by a REST API, web app and S3 snapshot
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OurResearch · Literature discovery & review
Open catalog of the global research system: works, authors, sources, institutions and topics under CC0, served by a REST API, web app and S3 snapshot
Bloomberg L.P. (FIGI Registration Authority) · Market & fundamentals data
Free API and web tool from Bloomberg for mapping tickers, ISINs, CUSIPs and other identifiers to public-domain FIGI instrument identifiers, with search and filter endpoints
ORCID, Inc. · Research dissemination
Non-profit registry of persistent researcher identifiers (ORCID iDs) with user-controlled records, Public and Member APIs, OAuth sign-in and an annual CC0 public data file
Center for Open Science · Reproducibility & research software
Free, open-source research management platform from the Center for Open Science for projects, preregistrations, registries, preprint services and linking outputs across storage providers
pandas development team (NumFOCUS) · DataFrames & array computing
The standard Python DataFrame library for labeled tabular data, time series and I/O to CSV, Excel, SQL, Parquet and more
John MacFarlane · LaTeX & typesetting
Universal document converter that translates between Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, DOCX, EPUB, Typst, Jupyter and dozens of other formats, with citeproc and Lua filters
Polars (Ritchie Vink and contributors) · DataFrames & array computing
Rust-based DataFrame library with Python, Rust, Node and R bindings offering lazy query optimization, multithreading and Arrow-native memory
Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing
Posit's multi-language data-science IDE built on Code OSS, with first-class R and Python consoles, variables and plots panes, under the Elastic License 2.0
Project Jupyter (NumFOCUS) · Notebooks & interactive computing
Open-source computational notebook ecosystem: the .ipynb format, kernels for Python, R and Julia, JupyterLab and Notebook interfaces and JupyterHub
Python Software Foundation · Programming languages & runtimes
General-purpose, dynamically typed programming language with a large standard library and the dominant ecosystem for data science and machine learning
PyTorch Foundation (Linux Foundation) · Training & fine-tuning
Open-source deep-learning framework with eager tensors, autograd, torch.compile and distributed training, governed by the PyTorch Foundation and the base of most LLM tooling
QuantLib project (Luigi Ballabio and contributors) · Financial analysis & investing
Open-source C++ library for quantitative finance covering instruments, term structures, pricing engines and calendars, with Python and other bindings
Posit Software, PBC · Academic writing & publishing
Open-source scientific publishing system from Posit that renders Markdown with executable Python, R, Julia or Observable code to HTML, PDF, Word, slides, websites and books via Pandoc
R Foundation / R Core Team · Programming languages & runtimes
Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, with the CRAN package archive and a strong base in academic statistics and econometrics
Posit Software, PBC · Academic writing & publishing
R package that turns Markdown documents with embedded R (and Python or SQL) chunks into HTML, PDF, Word, slides, books and dashboards through knitr and Pandoc
RePEc volunteers · Research dissemination
Volunteer-run decentralized bibliographic database of economics research, fed by institutional archives and served through IDEAS, EconPapers, the Author Service, CitEc, NEP and MPRA
Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing
Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate
scikit-learn developers · Mathematical & statistical computing
BSD-licensed Python machine-learning library for classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, preprocessing and model selection on NumPy and SciPy
SciPy developers (NumFOCUS) · Mathematical & statistical computing
Core open-source Python library for scientific computing on NumPy arrays: optimization, integration, interpolation, linear algebra, sparse matrices, statistics, signal processing
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · SEC/EDGAR & corporate filings
The SEC's free public filing system: company and full-text search, bulk index and feed archives, and data.sec.gov JSON APIs for submissions and XBRL financial facts, subject to a fair-access rate policy
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · Literature discovery & review
Free AI-assisted literature search from Ai2 with an Academic Graph API, recommendations and downloadable datasets of papers, authors and citations
Sphinx team · Documentation tooling
Python documentation generator using reStructuredText or MyST Markdown with cross-referencing, API autodoc and output to HTML, PDF via LaTeX, ePub and man pages
Elsevier · Research dissemination
Elsevier-owned preprint and working-paper platform with discipline networks, author pages, download rankings and institutional research paper series, free to post and read
Statistics Canada (Government of Canada) · Open & public data
Canada's national statistical agency publishing census, economic and social data tables with open licensing and programmatic access via Web Data Service
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