What kind of research is it? Is it just funding you or members can participate? I do Bayesian and non Bayesian data analysis and modeling, would be potentially fun to poke at the data
Right now the research is two parts, analyzing websites robots.txt files for bias and then talking with search engine operators and website operators to get their stories that validate these ideas. Right now I am the main person working on this research but I would like to get the robots.txt parsing and analysis code open sourced soon to allow people to start digging in. Getting people access to the data is trickier, but it feels doable as well. You'd be welcome to join in!
