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
Free diagramming editor (formerly diagrams.net) for flowcharts, network, UML and architecture diagrams, available as web app, desktop app and integrations
Stanford NLP and the DSPy community · Prompting, evaluation & observability
Python framework for programming language-model pipelines with typed signatures and modules, then optimizing prompts and weights automatically against a metric
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
Open-source software that pools several Apple Silicon Macs (and Linux hosts) into one local inference cluster, sharding large models across devices with MLX
Sebastián Ramírez (tiangolo) and FastAPI contributors · API development & tooling
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Python web framework for building HTTP APIs from type-annotated functions, with automatic validation through Pydantic and generated OpenAPI documentation
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
Git project (Software Freedom Conservancy) · Version control & code hosting
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Distributed version control system that records snapshots of a project's history locally and synchronizes them with remotes such as GitHub, GitLab or a bare repository over SSH
Gitea Ltd. / Gitea community · Version control & code hosting
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Lightweight self-hosted Git forge written in Go with repositories, pull requests, issues, packages and GitHub-compatible Actions, deployable as a single binary
Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Programming languages & runtimes
Statically typed, garbage-collected language from Google that compiles to single binaries and is widely used for servers, CLIs and infrastructure tooling
Free, GPL-licensed cross-platform econometrics program with a GUI, the hansl scripting language and estimators for time series, panels and limited dependent variables