The Datalab is HCSS’ in-house evidence- and knowledge-base that is increasingly becoming the foundation on which we build our geostrategic analyses. Until fairly recently, the fields of foreign, security, and defense policy (FSDP) analysis had few other options but to rely on mostly qualitative expert analysis and opinion. HCSS has, from its very inception in 2007, pushed for complementing this deep - but often partial - human expertise with more systematic - and multi-perspectivist - machine-based and data-driven analysis.
