6 tracks · 30 lessons
Video lessons are in production. Each is listed below and marked as upcoming.
Getting Started
Everyone new to HSIWhat is Human Signal Index
An overview of HSI as a public-source intelligence and trust analysis platform.
Platform Overview
A tour of the main areas: sources, signals, evidence, narratives, forecasts, and reports.
Core Concepts
The vocabulary HSI uses, and how each concept relates to the others.
Research Lifecycle
How work moves from a raw source to a reviewed, published finding.
Understanding the Dashboard
How to read the dashboard and find what you need.
Researcher Track
Researchers and OSINT practitionersAdding Sources
How to add a public source and what metadata to capture.
Source Discovery
Using the discovery and import tools to find and queue sources.
Source Review
Reviewing candidate sources before they are activated.
Evidence Collection
Capturing evidence with provenance back to the original passage.
Investigations
Organizing related sources and evidence into an investigation.
Analyst Track
Analysts working with signals and narrativesSignals
What a signal is and how signals are created and reviewed.
Narratives
How narratives cluster related signals and evidence over the graph.
Contradictions
Reading supporting and contradicting relationships between records.
Forecasting
Recording forecasts and tracking their outcomes.
Risk Analysis
How risk levels are assigned and explained.
Reviewer Track
Reviewers and editorsReview Queue
Working through items awaiting review.
Validation
Checking evidence and provenance before approval.
Publication Workflow
How reviewed findings are published.
Corrections
Recording corrections to published material.
Retractions
When and how a publication is retracted.
Intelligence Operations
Operations and command usersOperations Center
Using the command center to see what needs attention.
Global Map
Reading the geospatial intelligence layers.
Executive Intelligence
Summary views for leadership and decision support.
Early Warning
How thresholds surface emerging issues.
Reporting
Producing and exporting structured reports.
Platform Administration
AdministratorsRoles
The role ladder and what each role can do.
Permissions
How access is enforced across routes and data.
Auditor
Running the platform self-check auditor.
Source Management
Managing the source registry and geo activation.
Platform Governance
Oversight, transparency, and accountability practices.
New user checklist
0/8- Create an account
- Explore the dashboard
- Review the methodology
- Read the core concepts
- Add your first source
- Create your first signal
- Review the documentation
- Request help
Progress is for this session only and is not saved.
If you are new, read core concepts, then the workflow and methodology. Researchers should follow the Researcher track; analysts the Analyst track.
Full reference material lives in the documentation portal.
Written guides and explainers.
How to read a signal record
Understand risk levels, categories, and what a traceability score actually means.
Open guideSpotting rhetorical techniques
A walkthrough of in-group framing, urgency appeals, and authority mimicry.
Open guideProvenance and evidence chains
Why traceability is the backbone of credible signal intelligence.
Open guideClassroom toolkit
Lesson plans and exercises for teaching media literacy with HSI data.
Open guide