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Dataset Search

Dataset Search

Mountain View, CA

Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.

The People Say

The People Say

20 Jay Street, Suite 203 Brooklyn, NY 11201

A qualitative research database featuring excerpts from 100+ hours of interviews with older adults talking about the issues most important to them.

Public Data Access Programs - A First Look

The EU’s Digital Services Act mandates greater researcher data access from platforms; Mozilla and the National Conference on Citizenship investigated 19 platforms’ responses

Telescope

Telescope

United States of America 🇺🇸

a Discord bot for ethical, responsive digital ethnography

Sourcebase Inquiry

Sourcebase Inquiry

United States of America 🇺🇸

sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.

Common Crawl

Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.

Say When

Say When

San Francisco

Find when something was said in a video or podcast with AI-powered SayWhen.us

Fatima

Fatima

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Fatima's mission is for every person in the world to have their voice heard, while ensuring a safe, secure, and ethical research experience.

Civic Infrastructure Scan

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

Collaborate

Collaborate is an open-source tool that newsrooms can use to enable multiple reporters to share a dataset.

morph.io

morph.io

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780

Take the hassle out of web scraping

OCCRP Aleph

The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

X-ray contact

X-ray contact

Slovenia (Slovenija) 🇸🇮

A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data

Free Law Project

Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using software, data, and advocacy to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.

Pinpoint

Pinpoint

Mountain View, CA

Explore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.

Prosocial Design Network

Prosocial Design Network

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online

Semantic Scholar

an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides a one-sentence tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) summary under every computer science paper (for now) when users use the search function or go to an author’s page.

DocumentCloud

DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.

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