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Research Tools

Explore 72 projects in the Research Tools category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

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https://propublica.gitbook.io/collaborate-user-manual/ActiveOpen-source

Collaborate

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

Journalism, Media, Research tools
https://morph.io/ActiveOpen-source

morph.io

Take the hassle out of web scraping

The OpenAustralia Foundation PO Box 147 Katoomba NSW 2780
Civic data, Civic data APIs, Open civic data, Research tools
https://intelx.io/tools?tab=filetoolActive

Magic File Tool

This tool allows you to extract text, metadata, selectors and images from supported files.

Research tools
https://airtable.com/shrHY9KFJ5bircwvx/tblOY2aw1hYUuJze9Active

Airtable of public information for transparency purposes

An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects

Advocacy tech, Research tools, Watchdogging and transparency
https://publicalgo.org/Active

PublicAlgo

This platform turns public records and freedom-of-information requests into a searchable public account of government AI use.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Govtech, Organizational policies on AI, Research tools
https://thepeoplesay.org/Active

The People Say

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

20 Jay Street, Suite 203 Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA
2023
Narrative tech, Policy, Research tools, Story tech
mental health, seniors, health, Good health and well-being
https://httparchive.org/ActiveOpen-source

The HTTP Archive

The HTTP Archive Tracks How the Web is Built.

San Francisco
2010
Open civic data, Open internet, Research tools
https://www.semanticscholar.org/Active

Semantic Scholar

an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides a one-sentence tl;dr (too long; didnโ€™t read) summary under every computer science paper (for now) when users use the search function or go to an authorโ€™s page.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Research tools
https://www.overton.io/Active

Overton

Track your policy impact

London
Evaluate impact, Media and social media analysis, Policy, Research tools