Apache Parquet
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Matplotlib Development Team (NumFOCUS) · Data visualization
The foundational Python plotting library for static, publication-quality figures with full control over every element, exported to PDF, SVG, PNG and PGF
Elsevier · Citation management
Free reference manager from Elsevier with a desktop and web app, PDF annotation, a Web Importer, groups and bundled cloud storage
NumPy developers (NumFOCUS) · DataFrames & array computing
Foundational Python library for n-dimensional arrays, vectorized math, linear algebra, random numbers and the array API used by the scientific stack
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