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Research Tools

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

72 projects

aCURE

aCURE.info is a deterministic search platform that can run hundreds of integrated, weighted-context queries simultaneously.

Institute for Worldmaking (IWM)

The Institute for Worldmaking (IWM) is a global cultural research lab and public platform developing tools for imagining and building dynamic futures for and from the Arab world.

Pinpoint

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

Mountain View, CA, USA
Google

Google Trends API

The Google Trends API enables programmatic access to data from Google Trends, helping researchers, journalists, and developers conduct better analysis on search behavior and trends.

Mountain View, CA, USA

Pathfinder (concept mapper)

Enter in two concepts and it uses AI to chart paths between them

2025

Bonsai

Bonsai is a research system that replaces "black-box" engagement models with intentional, natural language-based curation.

Princeton, NJ

Unheard Voices

A community-driven storytelling platform for unhoused individuals to document their experiences with policy impacts, while providing researchers and advocates with data-driven insights to drive systemic change, alongside a comprehensive resource directory.

USA

Common Crawl

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

2007

Poliscope

Poliscope ist eine Plattform, die kommunale Sitzungsinformationen, Dokumente und Datenzugänge aus ganz Deutschland zentral bündelt.

Lüneburg, Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪