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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
OpenStreetMap Foundation · GIS & mapping
Collaboratively edited world map database released under the ODbL, with planet files, an editing API and derived tiles and extracts
Overleaf (Digital Science) · LaTeX & typesetting
Collaborative online LaTeX editor with real-time co-editing, templates and reference-manager sync, available as a hosted service and an AGPL self-hosted edition
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
Andrew Kane (pgvector project) · Vector databases
PostgreSQL extension adding vector types, distance operators and HNSW/IVFFlat indexes for similarity search inside the database
Microsoft · Testing & QA
Microsoft's browser automation and end-to-end testing framework driving Chromium, Firefox and WebKit from one API in TypeScript, Python, Java and .NET
Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning
Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts
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
PostGIS Project Steering Committee (OSGeo) · GIS & mapping
Spatial extension for PostgreSQL adding geometry, geography and raster types with indexing and hundreds of SQL functions
PostgreSQL Global Development Group · Relational databases
Open-source object-relational database server with a large extension ecosystem (PostGIS, pgvector, TimescaleDB) and broad SQL coverage
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
Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Data collection & crawling
Node.js library from the Chrome team for controlling Chrome and Firefox over the DevTools Protocol or WebDriver BiDi, used for scraping, screenshots, PDFs and testing
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
Qdrant Solutions GmbH · Vector databases
Open-source vector search engine written in Rust with filterable HNSW indexes, sparse and multi-vector support, REST/gRPC APIs and a managed cloud
QGIS.org association · GIS & mapping
Open-source desktop GIS for viewing, editing, analysing and publishing vector and raster geodata, extensible with Python plugins
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
Ray project (Anyscale and contributors) · Distributed & parallel computing
Open-source Python framework for distributing tasks, actors and ML workloads across a cluster, with libraries for data processing, training, tuning, serving and reinforcement learning
Meta Open Source / React team · Web frameworks & UI
Component-based JavaScript library for building user interfaces, created at Meta, with hooks, a declarative rendering model and server components
restic project (Alexander Neumann and contributors) · Backup & recovery
Encrypted, deduplicating backup program written in Go that stores snapshots in local, SFTP, S3-compatible and many cloud backends
Scrapy developers (maintained with Zyte) · Data collection & crawling
Mature open-source Python framework for writing crawlers (spiders) that fetch pages asynchronously, extract structured items and export them through pipelines
SQLite Consortium / Hipp, Wyrick & Company · Relational databases
Public-domain embedded SQL database engine that stores a whole database in one file and ships inside most operating systems and browsers
statsmodels developers (NumFOCUS) · Econometrics & causal inference
Python library for estimating statistical and econometric models with R-style formulas, rich result summaries and tests: OLS, GLM, discrete choice, ARIMA, state space, VAR and more
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