Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-10
Diplomatic Sentiment Observatory
An interactive research dashboard that turns official diplomatic texts into daily country-level indices for war-related, economic, and broader diplomatic sentiment.
Why it surfacedThe site makes an unusually specific promise: three parallel signals on a shared -3 to 3 scale, built from foreign-ministry statements and accompanied by downloadable data, methodology, and citation details. Its most consequential design choice is also plainly stated: when several texts appear on one day, the index uses the lowest observed score rather than an average.
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