Coverage
What is watched, how often, under which licence, and — as importantly — what is not watched. Density follows what public sources actually publish, which is uneven by design of the world.
Where the data comes from
Forty-nine feeds across eight domains, spanning instrument networks, official statistical agencies, intergovernmental bodies, academically coded datasets and press extraction. The Terminal lists every one with its current reporting status, so a feed that stops is visible as a feed that stopped rather than as an absence of events.
| Kind | What it contributes | Typical cadence |
|---|---|---|
| Instrument | Seismic, radar, vessel telemetry, network measurement | Minutes |
| Official | Advisories, energy and trade statistics, health bulletins | Hours to weeks |
| Intergovernmental | Trade flows, port throughput, food security | Weeks to quarters |
| Research | Coded conflict and event datasets | Daily to weekly |
| Press | Machine-coded wire and news extraction | Minutes |
Licences are enforced in software
Sources arrive under different terms, and those terms are implemented rather than merely documented. Three cases exist:
- Attribution required. The publisher is shown on every record derived from it, everywhere that record appears.
- Analysis only. Some licences permit ingestion and derived indicators but forbid public display of the underlying events. Those sources inform the graph and the indices and are never rendered as events — a restriction enforced in the query layer, not by convention.
- Redistribution limited. Where a licence restricts onward distribution, the exports and the public API respect it.
Where a provider publishes weeks behind, that lag is carried on every reading rather than smoothed away, and such sources corroborate but never drive a signal.
What is not covered
Stating this plainly is more useful than a coverage map that implies completeness.
- Reporting deserts. Regions with little independent press or few instruments are thinly covered, and that thinness is a property of the sources, not of the world.
- Undisclosed dependencies. The graph only knows relationships somebody publishes. Private contracts, undisclosed suppliers and informal arrangements are invisible — and are often exactly the ones that matter in a crisis.
- Sub-national economic detail. Trade data is largely national. A shock that lands on one province is modelled at the level the statistics exist at.
- Intent. Nothing here reads minds. It records what happened and what rests on what; it does not tell you what anyone plans to do next.