Constellate Sunset

The neat ITHAKA Constellate project is being shut down. It sounds like it was not financially sustainable.

As of November 2024, ITHAKA made the decision to sunset Constellate on July 1, 2025. While we’re proud of the meaningful impact Constellate has had on individuals and institutions, helping advance computational literacy and text analysis skills across academia, we have concluded that continuing to support the platform and classes is not sustainable for ITHAKA in the long term. As a nonprofit organization, we need to focus our resources on initiatives that can achieve broad-scale impact aligned with our mission. Despite Constellate’s success with its participating institutions, we haven’t found a path to achieve this broader impact.

It sounds like this sort of analytical support is best supported in universities by courses, workshops etc. Constellate developed cool notebooks (available in GitHub), courses built on the notebooks, and webinar recordings.