# Scaling social science research

DevFeed: [Scaling social science research](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/scaling-social-science-research-6641.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://openai.com/index/scaling-social-science-research>)

Published: 2026-02-13T09:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [OpenAI News](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/openai-news.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [online privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/online-privacy.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

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## AI overview

OpenAI's Economic Research Team introduces GABRIEL, an open-source Python toolkit that uses GPT to convert unstructured text and images into quantitative measurements. It helps economists, social scientists, and data scientists analyze qualitative data at scale, while supporting dataset merging, deduplication, passage coding, theory ideation, and privacy-preserving deidentification.

## Source excerpt

GABRIEL is a new open-source toolkit from OpenAI that uses GPT to turn qualitative text and images into quantitative data, helping social scientists analyze research at scale.