The Gitcoin Grants Data Portal is an open-source, serverless, and local-first Data Platform for Gitcoin Grants Data that improves data access and empowers data scientists to conduct research that guides community-driven analysis.

The Portal removes those obstacles by providing a central hub where community curated Gitcoin Grants datasets are accessible to everybody.

It is a living, breathing, and evolving project maintained by myself and DistributedDoge that is being used in multiple projects!

David's Work Supporting Gitcoin

Over the last few months, there have been many things I've done around the Gitcoin Grants Data Portal to support Gitcoin and its community. At a high level, I've worked on the following goals:

• Making Gitcoin data easier to access and use, attracting new analysts interested in working with Gitcoin Data, and saving time for existing analysts.
• Increasing the transparency of the Gitcoin Grants ecosystem allowing more people to understand the impact of their donations and build tools on top of the data to help future donations, making the ecosystem grow.
• Help to surface useful insights that showcase the Gitcoin Grants ecosystem's impact to external stakeholders and attract more donations.

More specifically, these are the tasks and work I've been responsible for that helped move the needle on the goals above:

• Provide a stable way to access datasets under IPFS using IPNS
• Refactored the pipelines to rely on the new Allo GraphQL API
• Iterated the development environment to make it faster and easier to start working on the project
• Reviewed and merged contributions from the community
• Worked on CI / CD and testing to ensure the platform is stable and reliable
• More small tasks and issues that you can check on the project GitHub!

Project Impact

These are some of the ways the Gitcoin Grants Data Portal has been used:

• Providing data for OS-Observer impact-tracking research
• Growing OS-Observer grantee directory (~30% of Github projects imported using)
• Providing data for Grantee-clustering POC
• Providing data for Gitcoin-end-of-year visualization
• Sybil hunting in Citizens#2 Round
• Arbitrum-led Open Data Community hackathon