Provenance
Keep source identity and lineage represented or documented to the depth the system actually implements.
Open Infrastructure for Macroeconomic Evidence.
We build open macroeconomic data infrastructure around provenance, validation, reproducibility, and transparency. Macro Data Observatory (MDO) is our flagship and foundational platform.
How we work
Evidence is more useful when its path stays visible.
We treat provenance, validation, reproducibility, maintainability, and transparent limitations as engineering requirements. The goal is practical: make the work easier to inspect, reproduce, and improve.
Read how we work →Validation
Make checks explicit without turning documented rules into claims of broader methodological assurance.
Reproducibility
Document pipelines, configuration, and transformation logic so results do not depend on hidden manual judgment.
Transparency
State relevant methodology, decisions, and material limitations plainly instead of letting confidence outrun evidence.
Our shared foundation
Macro Evidence sets the direction. MDO turns it into working infrastructure.
Macro Evidence is the organization: mission, stewardship, governance, standards, and the broader software direction. Macro Data Observatory is the flagship and foundational platform where that direction becomes macroeconomic-data infrastructure.
Macro Data Observatory
Open-source data infrastructure for acquiring, validating, structuring, and maintaining macroeconomic data from authoritative public sources through engineered, reproducible pipelines.
StatusUnder active development.
Public record
You should not have to take our word for it.
Our mission, decision process, documentation standards, and other institutional records are public and versioned. The website provides the context; the canonical records remain with the public repositories on GitHub that own them.
Audit the evidence. Decide what to trust.
Organization & Platform Charter
Our mission, vision, organization/platform scope, and durable direction.
Read Organization & Platform Charter →Governance & Decision-Making Charter
How consequential organization-wide decisions are evaluated, recorded, and approved.
Read Governance & Decision-Making Charter →Documentation Standards
How documentation ownership, writing, naming, versioning, and commit conventions are maintained.
Read Documentation Standards →Take part
Build with us. Ask questions. Support the work.
Whether you want to contribute, start a conversation, or help sustain the infrastructure, there is a clear place to begin.
Contribute
Help improve our software, documentation, and public infrastructure.
Contribute →Contact
Start a conversation about the work, collaboration, or an institutional question.
Get in touch →Sponsor
Help sustain the open infrastructure and ongoing engineering behind it.
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