Tutkaili

Tutkaili is an open-source software project that provides a platform for exploratory data analysis and reproducible research. It is designed to help researchers, educators, and students inspect datasets, formulate questions, perform analyses, and document workflows in a transparent manner. The name is derived from the Finnish verb tutkia, meaning to investigate.

The project features a modular architecture with a core engine and a plugin system that can be extended with data adapters, visualization widgets, and analysis tools. It supports multiple data sources, including flat files, relational databases, and cloud storages, and offers a notebook-like interface for composing code, annotations, and visual outputs. It emphasizes reproducibility through tracked pipelines, data provenance, and versioned experiments.

Development and licensing: Tutkaili is maintained by an international volunteer community and released under the MIT license. Contributions are coordinated through a public repository with issues, pull requests, and comprehensive contributor guidelines.

Impact and usage: The platform is used in higher education and research labs to teach data literacy, conduct exploratory analyses, and share reproducible workflows. It aims to complement existing tools by focusing on transparent, end-to-end experimentation and easy sharing of notebooks and data histories.

See also: Data science tools, Reproducible research, Open-source software.