Appendix B — Appendix B: Further Resources

This appendix collects external resources for readers who want to go further. Each chapter has its own curated “Further Reading and Resources” section; those lists are the place to start. This appendix aggregates the cross-cutting tools, communities, and training venues that appear in more than one chapter, plus a few that did not fit anywhere.

B.1 Cross-cutting tools

Datasette (datasette.io). Simon Willison’s toolkit for publishing SQLite databases as inspectable web applications. Used in Chapters 6, 9, 12, and 22.
Quarto (quarto.org). The rendering framework this book is built with. Used implicitly throughout and explicitly in Chapter 15.
The Wayback Machine (archive.org/web). The Internet Archive’s web capture service. Used in Chapters 16 and 22.
regulations.gov (regulations.gov). The federal rulemaking docket. Central to Chapter 20.
DMPTool (dmptool.org). Templates for data management plans. Central to Chapter 21.
Zenodo (zenodo.org). CERN’s general-purpose research archive. Central to Chapter 22.
fairlearn (fairlearn.org). Python toolkit for disaggregated performance evaluation. Central to Chapters 12 and 13.
geopandas (geopandas.org). Geographic data for pandas users. Central to Chapter 17.

B.2 Communities and networks

Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN)
Lines of Code for America and local Code for X brigades
OpenCorporates and the Sunlight Foundation’s archived work
The Markup and ProPublica (newsroom exemplars)
Data {&} Society, AI Now Institute, EPIC, Upturn
Access Now, Derechos Digitales, Paradigm Initiative (non-US counterparts)
Te Mana Raraunga (Māori Data Sovereignty Network)
United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network (USIDSN)

B.3 Training venues

IRE and NICAR. Investigative Reporters and Editors / National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting.
ICPSR Summer Program. Social-science data training at the University of Michigan.
Data Science for Social Good. Summer fellowships hosted at various universities.
FAccT and CSCW. Academic venues where much of this book’s source material lands.

B.4 Critical readings you did not meet in this book

This book’s framework focuses on records, openness, oversight, and ownership. Readers who want a sharper critique of that framing should start with:

Simone Browne, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (2015)
Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology (2019)
Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression (2018)
Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice (2020)
Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus (2014) on refusal as political stance

These texts do not fit neatly into the chapter arc because they do not accept its premises. That is the point of reading them.

B.5 When things change

External links break. Tools deprecate. APIs change. Report a broken link or a deprecated tool by opening an issue against the book’s repository. Maintenance of this appendix is the point, not an afterthought.

--- title: "Appendix B: Further Resources" --- This appendix collects external resources for readers who want to go further. Each chapter has its own curated "Further Reading and Resources" section; those lists are the place to start. This appendix aggregates the cross-cutting tools, communities, and training venues that appear in more than one chapter, plus a few that did not fit anywhere. ## Cross-cutting tools - **Datasette** ([datasette.io](https://datasette.io)). Simon Willison's toolkit for publishing SQLite databases as inspectable web applications. Used in Chapters 6, 9, 12, and 22. - **Quarto** ([quarto.org](https://quarto.org)). The rendering framework this book is built with. Used implicitly throughout and explicitly in Chapter 15. - **The Wayback Machine** ([archive.org/web](https://web.archive.org)). The Internet Archive's web capture service. Used in Chapters 16 and 22. - **regulations.gov** ([regulations.gov](https://regulations.gov)). The federal rulemaking docket. Central to Chapter 20. - **DMPTool** ([dmptool.org](https://dmptool.org)). Templates for data management plans. Central to Chapter 21. - **Zenodo** ([zenodo.org](https://zenodo.org)). CERN's general-purpose research archive. Central to Chapter 22. - **fairlearn** ([fairlearn.org](https://fairlearn.org)). Python toolkit for disaggregated performance evaluation. Central to Chapters 12 and 13. - **geopandas** ([geopandas.org](https://geopandas.org)). Geographic data for pandas users. Central to Chapter 17. ## Communities and networks - **Public Interest Technology University Network** (PIT-UN) - **Lines of Code for America** and local Code for X brigades - **OpenCorporates** and the Sunlight Foundation's archived work - **The Markup** and **ProPublica** (newsroom exemplars) - **Data {\&} Society**, **AI Now Institute**, **EPIC**, **Upturn** - **Access Now**, **Derechos Digitales**, **Paradigm Initiative** (non-US counterparts) - **Te Mana Raraunga** (Māori Data Sovereignty Network) - **United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network** (USIDSN) ## Training venues - **IRE and NICAR**. Investigative Reporters and Editors / National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. - **ICPSR Summer Program**. Social-science data training at the University of Michigan. - **Data Science for Social Good**. Summer fellowships hosted at various universities. - **FAccT** and **CSCW**. Academic venues where much of this book's source material lands. ## Critical readings you did not meet in this book This book's framework focuses on records, openness, oversight, and ownership. Readers who want a sharper critique of that framing should start with: - Simone Browne, *Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness* (2015) - Ruha Benjamin, *Race After Technology* (2019) - Safiya Umoja Noble, *Algorithms of Oppression* (2018) - Sasha Costanza-Chock, *Design Justice* (2020) - Audra Simpson, *Mohawk Interruptus* (2014) on refusal as political stance These texts do not fit neatly into the chapter arc because they do not accept its premises. That is the point of reading them. ## When things change External links break. Tools deprecate. APIs change. Report a broken link or a deprecated tool by opening an issue against the book's repository. Maintenance of this appendix is the point, not an afterthought.