Project 4β
Enabling critical research questions and missions at the scale of
global public web data
Enabling critical research questions and missions at the scale of
global public web data
Explorers
Academics
Researchers
Educators
Academia
Programmes
Faculties
Universities
Organizations
NGOs
NPOs
Public Initiatives
For us working in public web data gathering, the β coefficient is the change in the outcome for every change in the predictor. We care that our β is public good.
That’s why we choose the 4 effects we want to contribute our tech, expertise and resources pro bono:
Enabling researchers and academic departments with public web data gathering infrastructure, tech, and legal advisory globally through impactful partnerships.
Supporting lecturers and academic departments with free masterclasses and know-how about the legal, ethical, and technical aspects of public web data research.
Helping NGOs, NPOs and other organizations address the most challenging social missions by providing public web data gathering infrastructure, tech, and legal advisory.
Funding and advising academic researchers aiming to tackle large scale public web data and positive-change-driven projects.
Our mission is to enable critical research questions and missions at the scale of global public web data by providing know-how, public web data gathering infrastructure and resources pro bono. 4β will allow researchers and academics to maximize their research impact, enhance understanding of critical public web data and enter a new age of data acquisition.
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Have a look at our partnership stories
The Pulitzer Center
4β partners with The Pulitzer Center, a renowned non-profit organization known for advancing in-depth, high-impact journalism on underreported global issues and provides access to data collection solutions.
Stanford University
Project 4β, has partnered with Olivia Martin, a PhD student in Economics at Stanford University's School of Humanities and Sciences to enhance research with Oxylabs' Web Scraper API.
Carnegie Mellon University
Project 4β, has partnered with Liying Qiu, a PhD student in Business Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business to explore pricing and advertising strategies on e-commerce platforms.
Northwestern University
Project 4β partners with researchers from Northwestern University to provides free access to Oxylabs' web intelligence collection solutions to investigate the phenomenon of digital redlining.
Aston University
4β partnered with Dr. Ngoc Dieu Linh Vi, a lecturer in Economics at Aston University and provided free access to Oxylabs' web scraping solutions to gain valuable insights into economic and social trends.
Global Witness
Project 4β partnered with “Global Witness” – an independent, non-profit organization that investigates and campaigns to prevent natural resource-related conflict and corruption, and associated environmental and human rights abuses.
The Ferret
We partnered with The Ferret, an award-winning Scottish investigative journalism platform, to provide the organization with free access to web intelligence collection solutions and support it in its crucial mission to uncover the truth.
Bellingcat
4β partnered with Bellingcat, a nonprofit, independent investigative collective of researchers and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research.
Birmingham City University
Through Project 4β Oxylabs experts delivered two guest lectures to MA in Data Journalism students of the Birmingham School of Media and data journalists of BBC Shared Data Unit and BBC England Data Unit.
Vilnius University
Project 4β teamed up with Oxylabs partner Honeygain to introduce an exciting challenge for students, offering the chance to secure a paid internship at Oxylabs.
Civic Resilience Initiative
4β partnership with Civic Resilience Initiative grants the organization access to Oxylabs' cutting-edge web scraping solutions, empowering the organization and its team to advance fact-checking processes
Confirmado
Project 4beta has teamed up with Luis Assardo, OSINT researcher, data-investigative journalist, and founder of Confirmado, a Guatemalan project to fight disinformation.
University of Edinburgh Business School
Project 4β partnered with the University of Edinburgh Business School to share a guest lecture "Using Public Web Data to Speed Up Digital Transformation in Retail, Supply Chain and Finance."
Debunk.org
Debunk.org, an organization dedicated to countering online disinformation and state-sponsored internet propaganda, uses Oxylabs' cutting-edge web scraping technology and expertise to combat false information online.
Environmental Protection Department
Oxylabs will help tackle the problem of illegal classified ads in Lithuanian websites through the "Application of Webcrawling Method in the Environmental Protection Department activities" initiative.
#SRNT
4β established a new partnership with #SRNT – a nonprofit Crisis Aide platform, aimed to provide individuals facing challenging life situations with access to organizations where they can seek assistance.
GovTech Lab
Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania (RRT) brought a challenge to Govtech Lab hackathon to automate illegal content revealing child abuse detection in the Lithuanian IP address space.
The University of Michigan
Oxylabs partnered with Christopher Brooks, assistant professor of the School of Information at the University of Michigan, and prepared a presentation, “Oops I Scraped. Should I Hire a Lawyer?.
CODE – University of Applied Sciences
Oxylabs has partnered with CODE – a private state-accredited University of Applied Sciences to share expertise on ethical web scraping.
TrackCorona
A project by a student-led team from the University of Stanford, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. TrackCorona was a user-friendly platform, allowing everyone to gain a deep understanding of the pandemic with one click.
CoronaMapper
A project led by student Paolo Montemurro and researcher Peter H. Gruber from the University of Lugano helped people from all over the world to keep an eye on the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We invite explorers, universities, NGOs, NPOs and other organizations to join Project 4β and find out how automated public web data can bolster your research, open up new questions, and enable the advancement of critical global missions.
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