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Research Tools

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

72 projects

Youth Data Lab (Canada)

Youth Data Lab amplifies the voices of young people through over 7000 youth survey responses, 31,000 minutes of youth interviews, and 35,000 quantitative data points covering 65 Canadian cities.

Toronto
youth

Open Data Editor (ODE)

Find errors in your datasets quickly, and learn useful data skills on the go

Doctor

Doctor is a microservice for converting and extracting documents and audio files.

Oakland, California

Dataset Search

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.

Mountain View, CA, USA
2020
commercial, Google

Fatima

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

UK
2021

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.

Eyecite Citation Extractor

Eyecite is a high performance, robust, open source tool for extracting legal citations from text.

Oakland, California

Hunch.ly

Capture, organize, and preserve information from online research, safely, quickly, and easily.

Every CRS Report

We’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already available to the well-connected — we’re making them available to everyone for free.

Washington, DC