OSINT Resources for Public Policy Analysts

Government & Policy Data Sources

• Data.gov – U.S. government open data portal.
• Congress.gov – U.S. legislative data.
• World Bank Open Data – Global economic and social data.
• OECD Data – Economic and policy statistics.
• Eurostat – European economic and social data.

News & Media Monitoring

• Google News – Aggregated global news.
• GDELT – Real-time global media monitoring.
• Wayback Machine – Archive of historical websites.
• Allsides – Media bias ratings and perspectives.

Public Sentiment & Social Media Analysis

• Google Trends – Analyzes search trends.
• CrowdTangle – Social media tracking.
• Twitonomy – Twitter analytics.
• Trendsmap – Real-time Twitter trends.

Open Data & Mapping Tools

• OpenStreetMap – Open-source geographic data.
• Google Earth Engine – Satellite imagery and analysis.
• Humanitarian Data Exchange – Crisis and humanitarian data.
• NOAA Climate Data – Environmental and climate data.

Economic & Business Intelligence

• FRED – U.S. economic indicators.
• IMF Data – Global financial and economic reports.
• SEC EDGAR – U.S. corporate financial filings.
• UN Comtrade – Global trade data.

Legal & Regulatory Intelligence

• Justia – U.S. legal cases and regulations.
• Regulations.gov – U.S. regulatory proposals.
• State Legislative Websites – State-level policy data.

Think Tanks & Research Institutes

• Pew Research Center – Public opinion and policy research.
• Brookings Institution – Policy analysis and global affairs.
• RAND Corporation – Defense and public policy research.
• Heritage Foundation – Conservative policy research.
• Cato Institute – Libertarian policy research.

Data Scraping & Network Analysis

• BeautifulSoup – Web scraping in Python.
• Scrapy – Large-scale web scraping framework.
• Maltego – Link analysis and network mapping.
• Gephi – Open-source network visualization.
• OSINT Framework – Directory of OSINT tools.