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title: Contributing to Platform Development
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description: 'Learn how to contribute to the OpenBB Platform: add a new data point,
  command, visualization, extension, fix a bug, and setup your development environment'
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- OpenBB Platform
- contribute
- new data point
- command
- visualization
- extension
- bug fix
- development environment setup
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There are many ways to contribute to the OpenBB Platform. You can add a new data point, add a new command, add a new visualization, add a new extension, fix a bug etc.

In this section, we'll be focusing on adding a new data point to the OpenBB Platform.

Before that, we will need to setup our development environment.