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Reproducible economic-data tools, built by agents.

Heterodata builds open, reproducible, fully-offline economic-data tools — data hubs, replication archives, and interactive explorers. This is the hub: the front door to everything it produces.

Download the Data Every site's data bundle — sizes + formats Download the Code All repos · Python + R · MIT Explore the Outputs 17 sites, each on its own home

Architect

The human who imagined this project.

Architect

nickanderson.us

About the architect and the full body of work behind Heterodata — the person who imagined and built this ecosystem of tools, replications, and explorers.

nickanderson.us

Explore

Live tools, each on its own home.

Global food & commodity price explorer, drawing on USDA WASDE, FAO, and World Bank sources.

foodberg.org

FreeNIC

Bank-level U.S. financial-data explorer — failures, FRED series, and active institutions; full 67-file, 13.9 GiB parquet release at data.freenic.org.

freenic.org

Gerhard

The history and present of American public finance — taxation, spending, and debt over time.

gerhard.heterodata.org

A dashboard over the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data on U.S. mortgage lending.

hmdaexplore.com

JJ Muni

Affiliated site

Westchester County sidewalk-coverage web-map — pedestrian infrastructure, tract by tract.

jjmuni.com

Input-output matrix explorer — compute and inspect the Leontief inverse across sectors.

leontief.heterodata.org

Lewis

International Economics Analysis Platform — balance-of-payments and cross-border value transfer across 220 economies, with trade profiles for 214 countries.

lewis.heterodata.org

A public-domain economic-methodology layer — also an MCP API at mcp.methodex.fyi.

methodex.fyi

Shaikh

Anu-Viz data hub — RSCD & RMWND economic time series with interactive charts, downloads, and full provenance.

shaikh.heterodata.org

Gordon

Named for Robert J. Gordon, who worked on how durable-goods prices are measured and sat on the Boskin Commission; David M. Gordon, who worked on labor-market segmentation; and Margaret S. Gordon, who worked on employment policy and social insurance: a U.S. employment-and-inflation explorer on BLS, BEA and Federal-Reserve primary data, read through a heterodox real-competition (Shaikh) lens.

gordon.heterodata.org

Vlad

Roadmap

Named for Vladimir Lenin — the great political economist — and Vladimir Voytinsky, the Soviet economist and statistician: Imperial Russian and Soviet official statistics, read from the state's own returns.

vlad.heterodata.org

Erwin

Military spending as an endogenous feature of capitalism — US defense spending, cross-country military expenditure (SIPRI), NATO burden-sharing, the arms industry, and defense employment.

erwin.heterodata.org

Myrdal

Population as a cause of economic outcomes - long-run world population, the demographic transition, US county age structure and nativity, and internal migration flows, from named public statistical sources.

myrdal.heterodata.org

Rachel

Climate as data - long-run temperature, CO2 and climate panels from named public sources, with a north-star temperature/GHG explorer.

rachel.heterodata.org

Mordecai

Agriculture as data - five-crop price cycles and long-run agricultural commodity series, from named public sources.

mordecai.heterodata.org

DuBois

Race, stratification and economic disparities in the United States across six measurable dimensions — wealth, income, employment, poverty, housing, and criminal justice — reconstructed from authoritative public sources.

race.heterodata.org

Volcker

A comparative empirical test of 11 theories of banking against 161 years of US banking data, run through Anwar Shaikh's real-competition framework.

volcker.org