Signals
Every piece states its finding, shows its evidence, and names its limitation in the same document. Where we get a number wrong, the correction appears here with the date on it.
Field brief · 15 JUL 2026 · 4 min
The interval between a neighbourhood signal appearing in administrative data and the point where a response still changes the outcome is about six weeks. Most municipalities are working eighteen months behind it.
Dr. Krishna Hari Pushkar
Data · 30 JUN 2026 · 4 min
More than a quarter of Catalonia’s residents were born outside Spain. The figure is accurate, widely quoted, and almost useless for planning a service, because the thing it averages away is the thing you need.
Dr. Krishna Hari Pushkar
Government · 12 JUN 2026 · 4 min
Six questions decide whether a municipal AI pilot happens. They are asked in the same order every time, and a vendor who cannot answer the first two rarely gets to the third.
Desh Deepak
Method · 28 MAY 2026 · 4 min
A keyword scan reads the words on a CV. Skills matching reads the competences behind them. The difference decides whether a qualified electrician from Quito ever reaches a shortlist in Sabadell.
Desh Deepak
People
09 MAY 2026 · 4 min
European integration platforms are built by people who have only ever seen the arrival. Twenty-one years running the departure end of a major labour corridor changes what you think the data is for.
Dr. Krishna Hari Pushkar
Case study
22 APR 2026 · 4 min
We took the diagnostic requirements of a live Catalan funding instrument and checked each one against what a municipality can actually produce from published sources today. Roughly half are answerable. The unanswerable half is consistently the operational half.
Dr. Krishna Hari Pushkar
