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World Monitor provides a comprehensive set of features for real-time global intelligence monitoring, from interactive maps and data layers to market tracking and customizable panel layouts.

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Interactive Global Map

  • Zoom & Pan - Smooth navigation with mouse/trackpad gestures
  • Regional Focus - 8 preset views for rapid navigation (Global, Americas, Europe, MENA, Asia, Latin America, Africa, Oceania)
  • Layer System - Toggle visibility of 56 data layers organized by category
  • Time Filtering - Filter events by time range (1h, 6h, 24h, 48h, 7d)
  • Pinnable Map - Pin the map to the top while scrolling through panels, or let it scroll with the page
  • Smart Marker Clustering - Nearby markers group at low zoom, expand on zoom in

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Marker Clustering

Dense regions with many data points use intelligent clustering to prevent visual clutter: How It Works
  • Markers within a pixel radius (adaptive to zoom level) merge into cluster badges
  • Cluster badges show the count of grouped items
  • Clicking a cluster opens a popup listing all grouped items
  • Zooming in reduces cluster radius, eventually showing individual markers
Grouping Logic
  • Protests: Cluster within same country only (riots sorted first, high severity prioritized)
  • Tech HQs: Cluster within same city (Big Tech sorted before unicorns before public companies)
  • Tech Events: Cluster within same location (sorted by date, soonest first)
This prevents issues like Dubai and Riyadh companies appearing merged at global zoom, while still providing clean visualization at continental scales.

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Data Layers

Layers are organized into logical groups for efficient monitoring: Geopolitical Military & Strategic Infrastructure Transport *AIS data via AISStream.io uses terrestrial receivers with stronger coverage in European/Atlantic waters. Middle East, Asia, and open ocean coverage is limited. Satellite AIS providers (Spire, Kpler) offer global coverage but require commercial licenses. Natural Events Overlays & Labels Webcams

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Intelligence Panels

Beyond raw data feeds, the dashboard provides synthesized intelligence panels: These panels transform raw signals into actionable intelligence by applying scoring algorithms, trend detection, and cross-source correlation.

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News Aggregation

Multi-source RSS aggregation across categories:
  • World / Geopolitical - BBC, Reuters, AP, Guardian, NPR, Politico, The Diplomat
  • Middle East / MENA - Al Jazeera, BBC ME, Guardian ME, Al Arabiya, Times of Israel
  • Africa - BBC Africa, News24, Google News aggregation (regional & Sahel coverage)
  • Latin America - BBC Latin America, Guardian Americas, Google News aggregation
  • Asia-Pacific - BBC Asia, South China Morning Post, Google News aggregation
  • Energy & Resources - Google News aggregation (oil/gas, nuclear, mining, Reuters Energy)
  • Technology - Hacker News, Ars Technica, The Verge, MIT Tech Review
  • AI / ML - ArXiv, VentureBeat AI, The Verge AI, MIT Tech Review
  • Finance - CNBC, MarketWatch, Financial Times, Yahoo Finance
  • Government - White House, State Dept, Pentagon, Treasury, Fed, SEC, UN News, CISA
  • Intel Feed - Defense One, Breaking Defense, Bellingcat, Krebs Security, Janes
  • Think Tanks - Foreign Policy, Atlantic Council, Foreign Affairs, CSIS, RAND, Brookings, Carnegie
  • Crisis Watch - International Crisis Group, IAEA, WHO, UNHCR
  • Regional Sources - Xinhua, TASS, Kyiv Independent, Moscow Times
  • Layoffs Tracker - Tech industry job cuts

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Source Filtering

The SOURCES button in the header opens a global source management modal, enabling fine-grained control over which news sources appear in the dashboard. Capabilities:
  • Search: Filter the source list by name to quickly find specific outlets
  • Individual Toggle: Click any source to enable/disable it
  • Bulk Actions: “Select All” and “Select None” for quick adjustments
  • Counter Display: Shows “45/77 enabled” to indicate current selection
  • Persistence: Settings are saved to localStorage and persist across sessions
Use Cases:
  • Noise Reduction: Disable high-volume aggregators (Google News) to focus on primary sources
  • Regional Focus: Enable only sources relevant to a specific geographic area
  • Source Quality: Disable sources with poor signal-to-noise ratio
  • Bias Management: Balance coverage by enabling/disabling sources with known editorial perspectives
Technical Details:
  • Disabled sources are filtered at fetch time (not display time), reducing bandwidth and API calls
  • Affects all news panels simultaneously: disable BBC once, it is gone everywhere
  • Panels with all sources disabled show “All sources disabled” message
  • Changes take effect on the next refresh cycle

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Regional Intelligence Panels

Dedicated panels provide focused coverage for strategically significant regions: Each panel aggregates region-specific sources to provide concentrated situational awareness for that theater. This enables focused monitoring when global events warrant attention to a particular region.

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Live News Streams

Embedded YouTube live streams from major news networks with channel switching: Core Features:
  • Channel Switcher - One-click switching between networks
  • Live Indicator - Blinking dot shows stream status, click to pause/play
  • Mute Toggle - Audio control (muted by default)
  • Double-Width Panel - Larger video player for better viewing
Performance Optimizations: The live stream panel uses the YouTube IFrame Player API rather than raw iframe embedding. This provides several advantages: Idle Detection: To conserve resources, the panel implements automatic idle pausing: This prevents background tabs from consuming bandwidth while preserving user preference for manually-paused streams.

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Market Data

  • Stocks - Major indices and tech stocks via Finnhub (Yahoo Finance backup)
  • Commodities - Oil, gold, natural gas, copper, VIX
  • Crypto - Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana via CoinGecko
  • Sector Heatmap - Visual sector performance (11 SPDR sectors)
  • Economic Indicators - Fed data via FRED (assets, rates, yields)
  • Oil Analytics - EIA data: WTI/Brent prices, US production, US inventory with weekly changes
  • Government Spending - USASpending.gov: Recent federal contracts and awards

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Prediction Markets

  • Polymarket integration for event probability tracking
  • Correlation analysis with news events

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Workflows

Two full-screen, keyboard-first workflows complement the map + panels experience:
  • Route Explorer — plan a shipment between any two countries. Four tabs (Current / Alternatives / Land / Impact) resolve chokepoint exposure, bypass corridors, land alternatives, and per-country import exposure for the selected HS2 commodity. PRO-gated.
  • Scenario Engine — run pre-built disruption scenarios (conflict, weather, sanctions, tariff shocks) and watch the impact resolve across chokepoints, sectors, and countries on the map and in the Supply Chain panel. PRO-gated.

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Country-level risk

Two complementary country-scoring surfaces:
  • Country Instability Index — a high-frequency CII v8 stress score with signed 24-hour movement deltas, blending unrest, conflict, security, and information signals for 31 Tier-1 countries.
  • Country Resilience Index — a 0-100 resilience score for the 196-country public rankable universe across 6 domains and 20 active dimensions (grouped into 3 pillars: structural readiness, live shock exposure, recovery capacity; plus 2 retired dimensions kept for schema continuity), refreshed every 6 hours and sourced from official/authoritative providers with transparent imputation.
CII and CRI answer different questions and are not interchangeable: CII is short-horizon stress; CRI is structural resilience plus live shock exposure.

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Search (Cmd+K)

Universal command palette for navigating the entire application. Every panel, map view, layer toggle, workflow, and country brief is searchable: The full panel inventory lives in the app itself — Cmd+K surfaces what’s available in your current variant rather than a fixed list.

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Data Export

  • CSV and JSON export of current dashboard state
  • Country dossier evidence bundles as portable Markdown with source links and freshness notes where available
  • Historical playback from snapshots

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Custom Monitors

Create personalized keyword alerts that scan all incoming news:
  1. Enter comma-separated keywords (e.g., “nvidia, gpu, chip shortage”)
  2. System assigns a unique color
  3. Matching articles are highlighted in the Monitor panel
  4. Matching articles in clusters inherit the monitor color
Monitors persist across sessions via LocalStorage.

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Activity Tracking

The dashboard highlights newly-arrived items so you can quickly identify what changed since your last look.

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Visual Indicators

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Automatic “Seen” Detection

The system uses IntersectionObserver to detect when panels become visible:
  • When a panel is >50% visible for >500ms, items are marked as “seen”
  • Scrolling through a panel marks visible items progressively
  • Switching panels resets the “new” state appropriately

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Panel-Specific Tracking

Each panel maintains independent activity state:
  • News: New clusters since last view
  • Markets: Price changes exceeding thresholds
  • Predictions: Probability shifts >5%
  • Natural Events: New earthquakes and EONET events
This enables focused monitoring: you can collapse panels you have reviewed and see at a glance which have new activity.

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Snapshot System

The dashboard captures periodic snapshots for historical analysis:
  • Automatic capture every refresh cycle
  • 7-day retention with automatic cleanup
  • Stored data: news clusters, market prices, prediction values, hotspot levels
  • Playback: Load historical snapshots to see past dashboard states
Baselines (7-day and 30-day averages) are stored in IndexedDB for deviation analysis.

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Critical Mineral Deposits

The Minerals layer displays strategic mineral extraction sites essential for modern technology and defense supply chains.

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Tracked Resources

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Key Sites

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Supply Chain Risks

Critical minerals are geopolitically concentrated:
  • Cobalt: 70% from DRC, significant artisanal mining concerns
  • Rare Earths: 60% from China, processing nearly monopolized
  • Lithium: Expanding production but demand outpacing supply
News about these regions or mining companies can signal supply disruptions affecting technology and defense sectors.

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Cyber Threat Actors (APT Groups)

The map displays geographic attribution markers for major state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups. These markers show the approximate operational centers of known threat actors.

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Tracked Groups

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Why This Matters

Cyber operations often correlate with geopolitical tensions. When news reports reference Russian cyber activity during a Ukraine escalation, or Iranian hacking during Middle East tensions, these markers provide geographic context for the threat landscape.

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Visual Indicators

APT markers appear as warning triangles with distinct styling. Clicking a marker shows:
  • Official designation and common aliases
  • State sponsor and intelligence agency
  • Primary targeting sectors

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Social Unrest Tracking

The Protests layer aggregates civil unrest data from two independent sources, providing corroboration and global coverage.

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ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data)

Academic-grade conflict data with human-verified events:
  • Coverage: Global, 30-day rolling window
  • Event types: Protests, riots, strikes, demonstrations
  • Metadata: Actors involved, fatalities, detailed notes
  • Confidence: High (human-curated)

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GDELT (Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone)

Real-time news-derived event data:
  • Coverage: Global, 7-day rolling window
  • Event types: Geocoded protest mentions from news
  • Volume: Reports per location (signal strength)
  • Confidence: Medium (algorithmic extraction)

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Multi-Source Corroboration

Events from both sources are deduplicated using a 0.5 degree spatial grid and date matching. When both ACLED and GDELT report events in the same area:
  • Confidence is elevated to “high”
  • ACLED data takes precedence (higher accuracy)
  • Source list shows corroboration

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Severity Classification

Events near intelligence hotspots are cross-referenced to provide geopolitical context.

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Map Display Filtering

To reduce visual clutter and focus attention on significant events, the map displays only high-severity protests and riots: Lower-severity events are still tracked for CII scoring and data exports: they simply do not create map markers. This filtering prevents dense urban areas (which naturally generate more low-severity demonstrations) from overwhelming the map display.

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Aviation Monitoring

The Flights layer tracks airport delays and ground stops at major US airports using FAA NASSTATUS data.

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Delay Types

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Severity Thresholds

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Monitored Airports

111 airports across 5 regions (Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, MENA, Africa) are monitored through three independent data sources (FAA ASWS, AviationStack, ICAO NOTAM):
  • Major US hubs: JFK, LAX, ORD, ATL, DFW, DEN, SFO
  • International gateways with high traffic volume
  • 46 MENA airports via ICAO NOTAM for closure detection
  • Airports frequently affected by weather or congestion
Ground stops are particularly significant: they indicate severe disruption (weather, security, or infrastructure failure) and can cascade across the network.

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Prediction Market Filtering

The Prediction Markets panel focuses on geopolitically relevant markets, filtering out sports and entertainment.

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Inclusion Keywords

Markets matching these topics are displayed:
  • Conflicts: war, military, invasion, ceasefire, NATO, nuclear
  • Countries: Russia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan, Iran, Israel, Gaza
  • Leaders: Putin, Zelensky, Trump, Biden, Xi Jinping, Netanyahu
  • Economics: Fed, interest rate, inflation, recession, tariffs, sanctions
  • Global: UN, EU, treaties, summits, coups, refugees

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Exclusion Keywords

Markets matching these are filtered out:
  • Sports: NBA, NFL, FIFA, World Cup, championships, playoffs
  • Entertainment: Oscars, movies, celebrities, TikTok, streaming
This ensures the panel shows markets like “Will Russia withdraw from Ukraine?” rather than “Will the Lakers win the championship?”

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Panel Management

The dashboard organizes data into draggable, collapsible panels that persist user preferences across sessions.

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Drag-to-Reorder

Panels can be reorganized by dragging:
  1. Grab the panel header (grip icon appears on hover)
  2. Drag to desired position
  3. Drop to reorder
  4. New order saves automatically to LocalStorage
This enables personalized layouts: put your most-watched panels at the top.

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Panel Visibility

Toggle panels on/off via the Settings menu:
  • Hidden panels: Do not render, do not fetch data
  • Visible panels: Full functionality
  • Collapsed panels: Header only, data still refreshes
Hiding a panel is different from disabling a layer: the panel itself does not appear in the interface.

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Default Panel Order

Panels are organized by intelligence priority:

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Persistence

Panel state survives browser restarts:
  • LocalStorage: Panel order, visibility, collapsed state
  • Automatic save: Changes persist immediately
  • Per-device: Settings are browser-specific (not synced)

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Mobile Experience

The dashboard is optimized for mobile devices with a streamlined interface that prioritizes usability on smaller screens.

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First-Time Mobile Welcome

When accessing the dashboard on a mobile device for the first time, a welcome modal explains the mobile-optimized experience:
  • Simplified view notice - Informs users they are seeing a curated mobile version
  • Navigation tip - Explains regional view buttons and marker interaction
  • “Don’t show again” option - Checkbox to skip on future visits (persisted to localStorage)

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Mobile-First Design

On screens narrower than 768px or touch devices:
  • Compact map - Reduced height (40vh) to show more panels
  • Single-column layout - Panels stack vertically for easy scrolling
  • Hidden map labels - All marker labels are hidden to reduce visual clutter
  • Fixed layer set - Layer toggle buttons are hidden; a curated set of layers is enabled by default
  • Simplified controls - Map resize handle and pin button are hidden
  • Touch-optimized markers - Expanded touch targets (44px) for easy tapping
  • Hidden DEFCON indicator - Pentagon Pizza Index hidden to reduce header clutter
  • Hidden FOCUS selector - Regional focus buttons hidden (use preset views instead)
  • Compact header - Social link shows X logo instead of username text

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Mobile Default Layers

The mobile experience focuses on the most essential intelligence layers: Layers disabled by default on mobile (but available on desktop):
  • Military bases, nuclear facilities, spaceports, minerals
  • Undersea cables, pipelines, datacenters
  • AIS vessels, military flights
  • Protests, economic centers
This curated set provides situational awareness without overwhelming the interface or consuming excessive data/battery.

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Offline ML Capabilities

The dashboard includes browser-side machine learning that works without any server connection:
  • Threat Classification - Three-stage pipeline (keyword pre-filter, browser ML model, optional LLM refinement) classifies news headlines by threat category
  • Headline Scoring - ML-based importance scoring for news articles, enabling priority-based rendering
  • Entity Extraction - Client-side named entity recognition for identifying countries, organizations, and key figures in headlines
These models run entirely in the browser via Web Workers, providing intelligence analysis capabilities even when offline or when API keys are not configured.

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Usage

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Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Cmd+K / Ctrl+K - Open search
  • Up/Down - Navigate search results
  • Enter - Select result
  • Esc - Close modals

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Map Controls

  • Scroll - Zoom in/out
  • Drag - Pan the map
  • Click markers - Show detailed popup with full context
  • Hover markers - Show tooltip with summary information
  • Layer toggles - Show/hide data layers
  • Layer explanations - Open compact cards from the layer picker to see a layer’s purpose, source/provider, freshness expectation, confidence notes, limitations, and related panels

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Map Marker Design

Infrastructure markers (nuclear facilities, economic centers, ports) display without labels to reduce visual clutter. Full information is available through interaction: This design prioritizes geographic awareness over label density: users can quickly scan for markers and then interact for context.

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Panel Management

  • Drag panels - Reorder layout
  • Settings - Toggle panel visibility
The current view state is encoded in the URL, enabling:
  • Bookmarking: Save specific views for quick access
  • Sharing: Send colleagues a link to your exact map position and layer configuration
  • Deep linking: Link directly to a specific region or feature
Encoded Parameters: Example: ?lat=38.9&lon=-77&zoom=6&layers=bases,conflicts,hotspots Values are validated and clamped to prevent invalid states.