Open data, open guides, open source.
Everything the lab archives or learns, shared back with the people who need it — free to use, adapt, and build on.
Public data archive
A documented, durable mirror of the public datasets Coloradans depend on.
Guides & tools
Data documentation guides
Provenance, limitations, and journalistic applications for every dataset in the archive.
Tutorials & how-tos
Practical walkthroughs for finding, cleaning, and visualizing public data.
Open-access CUPIDS design guide
Our operating model — structure, services, curriculum — for other universities to replicate.
Tooling & code
Open-source pipelines and notebooks, free to fork and adapt.
Data liberation toolkit
An open-source agent skill and project template for rescuing civic data — finding it, extracting it, and archiving it before it disappears.
What we build
We acquire and clean datasets before they disappear, document their provenance and limitations, and build durable infrastructure for long-term public access — then put it to work in original investigations.
Durable archives
At-risk public datasets captured in open, persistent repositories that outlive their original sources.
Reproducible pipelines
Acquisition, cleaning, and validation workflows documented end to end so anyone can rerun them.
Evaluated tooling
We test AI models, interactive visualizations, and GIS systems for real public-interest use.
Focus areas
The full spectrum of public-interest data work.