ARAC — African Representation Atlas of Cochrane (12 plans, 5 RGS metrics, 3 user-facing artifacts)
# ARAC — African Representation Atlas of Cochrane
> The first cross-cutting audit of how the global evidence base — operationalised as the Cochrane Library — represents African populations, African investigators, and African patients.
**Live dashboard:**
mahmood726-cyber.github.io
**E156 Methods Note:** E156-PAPER.md · 156 words · 7 sentences
## Status (v0.9.0 — 2026-04-28)
Twelve plans shipped across twelve annotated tags. **All 5 spec RGS metrics live** (reproduction gap, precision gap, sign-flip, heterogeneity gap, recommendation change). **Three user-facing artifacts** generated by the pipeline: per-MA × per-Tier atlas CSV, filterable HTML dashboard, RapidMeta-style per-trial verification UI.
| Stage | Tag | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation + repool engine | v0.0.1 | 2026-04-27 | Reproduces 14.30% Pairwise70 reproduction-floor headline within ±0.5pp |
| Resolver (PubMed + CT.gov + acronym) | v0.1.0 | 2026-04-27 | Multi-source metadata acquisition |
| Tier-S (site) — AACT-backed | v0.2.0 | 2026-04-27 | Per-trial African-site classification |
| PubMed efetch enrichment | v0.2.1 | 2026-04-27 | Affiliation backfill for post-1995 trials |
| Tier-A (authorship) | v0.3.0 | 2026-04-27 | First-or-senior-author African classification |
| Word-boundary alias matching | v0.3.1 | 2026-04-28 | Eliminates "car"→"cardiovascular" false-positives |
| Tier-P (participant geography) — LLM | v0.4.0 | 2026-04-28 | Anthropic SDK with prompt caching |
| RGS engine (3 of 5 metrics) + atlas pipeline | v0.5.0 | 2026-04-28 | First atlas CSV |
| Single-file HTML dashboard | v0.6.0 | 2026-04-28 | Filters + summary stats |
| Heterogeneity gap (REML τ² + I²) | v0.7.0 | 2026-04-28 | 4 of 5 metrics |
| Recommendation change (CI vs MCID) | v0.8.0 | 2026-04-28 | **5 of 5 metrics complete** |
| Verification UI (RapidMeta-style) | v0.9.0 | 2026-04-28 | localStorage + JSON export |
## Run the pipeline
```bash
pip install -e ".[dev]"
python -m pytest -v …