About Research Party

Website quick start

• Choose a bibliography source in the app sidebar (Upload, Zotero, or Seed paper).
• Choose provider and model under LLM Selection. Available model options are automatically discovered from your current API key.
• Compile Pack to build the pack and full analysis.
• Read the results in Network, Synthesis, Further Reading / S2 Suggestions, 3D Map, Social Map, and Explore.
• Load existing pack.json anytime to review a prior run without recompiling.

Informational accuracy

• RP is intended to visualize and offer tangible visualization and data-enabled expansion of bibliographies created by expert researchers, notto replace the research process. This tool operates better when responding to meticulous initial research.
• Remember to treat generated prose as draft analysis: verify claims against source metadata, abstracts, and quoted text.
• Check citation context Network and Further Reading / S2 Suggestions are intended only as generative suggestions, not certitudes.

What the tool is for

Research Party is aimed at helping researchers reimagine their research to help them find gaps and reshape their picture of completeness. The primary output is a pack of documents which can be viewed on the site or downloaded for long-term use.

Maps are intended to give the users accurate visual representations both of social connections and of research holes.

Origins

Research Party started as an exercise in a first-year writing seminar at Carnegie Mellon University. The names of roles are inspired by great movies and the chaotic humor of early-career writers.

Research Party (Synthesis) 1.2 You can download the original handout here.

People & context

Seth Strickland is Lecturer in Writing and Communications at Carnegie Mellon University; his PhD is in medieval literature, manuscript studies, and digital humanities. He co-leads research directions that connect language technology with humanistic inquiry—including work on Proofs & Reasons at CMU—and teaches courses that bridge poetics, rhetoric, and computation (for example “Poetry for Programmers”).

His teaching philosophy treats computational methods as tools humanists can use for problems they articulate clearly, and documents as designed objects—skills that align with Research Party’s emphasis on evidence, structure, and auditability rather than black-box summaries.

For a full CV, courses, publications, and contact: buzzcauldron.github.io · [email protected]

Support Research Party

If Research Party is useful in your teaching or research, you can help keep it maintained and documented. You can give however you prefer—check, transfer, or an app.

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Receipts. Card and wallet processors (Venmo, Ko-fi, PayPal, Stripe, etc.) email their own payment confirmation. That message is usually what you need for reimbursement or taxes when applicable.

For an extra paper trail that names the beneficiary and your own details, open the printable acknowledgment after you give, fill in the amount and date, then print or save as PDF from your browser.