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At a glance

Three horizons, three geographies

Each horizon rests on data published at a different level, and ATLAS keeps them apart: history by county, the present by Electoral Division, projections at whatever level the series is published. A county figure is never spread across the divisions inside it.

Worked examples

Each opens the map or a page already set to the view described.

Buncrana Urban, unemploymentOne Electoral Division's profile, at the measure named in the Evidence Gate brief this map grew from. Leitrim since 1901The county still recovering the furthest against its own historical benchmark. Lead timesDwellings completing today against a primary school's years-long lead time, for any of the 30 local authorities.

Also in ATLAS

Lead timesDwellings completed today, children of school age tomorrow: a timing question public data can answer, with every assumption on a slider. ClimateThe observed station record since 1958 and emissions by sector. No projection of ATLAS's own. AskA question in plain words becomes a visible query, run by ordinary code. Not a chatbot. SchoolsNational primary-school series from CSO open data, kept apart from an unlicensed list. ConsultationsWhat is open for public submission. Empty until a real source exists, and says so.

How to read a label

Every material statement in ATLAS carries one of eight classes, so fluent prose cannot blur what was measured with what was inferred.

Verified fact
Directly established by a cited authoritative source for the stated place and period.
Calculated indicator
Produced deterministically from identified source fields by a reproducible formula.
Inference
A reasoned interpretation of stated evidence, with its reasoning shown.
Scenario
A conditional result from explicit inputs and assumptions. Never called a forecast.
Forecast / projection
Output of a named model, with owner, vintage, horizon and measured error.
Assumption
An input or analytical choice not established by source data, kept visible.
Unknown
Unavailable, incompatible, stale, too uncertain, or not measured. Shown as no data, not zero.
Judgement required
A matter for a named professional, statutory process or public body.

What this tool refuses to do

Data registry

Coverage is stated, not implied. This registry lists every dataset the tool intends to carry, including the ones not built yet. A theme showing mostly Candidate is a theme we have scoped, not one we have delivered. Nothing is hidden to make the coverage look better than it is.

This registry lists what data ATLAS has. Whether the pipeline's own checks on that data passed -- the join, the source scorecard, the cartography rules and the narrative gate -- is on How ATLAS checks itself.

Measure and dataset names, and the registry detail describing them, are shown as their publisher issued them, not translated for this prototype.