Why filters?
SEE platform filters are less data reduction mechanisms and more a fundamental aspect of strategic intelligence management, allowing users to tailor the platform to their specific environment of operation and function. Used in responding to crisis, executive protection, logistics continuity, or geopolitical risk assessment, filters allow each respective stakeholder to place priority on the most relevant information.
A regional security lead may focus on high-severity disruptions in specific countries, while a supply chain manager monitors infrastructure-related disruptions on major corridors. This level of specificity avoids overwhelming teams with data noise, but instead gives them timely, relevant insights to facilitate proactive decision-making, operational efficiency, and cross-functional alignment. By aligning screened data with each user's purpose, SEE allows for a better structured, agile, and intelligent reaction to emergent threats.
How to use filters?
You can filter data to be visualized for analysis (one-time-only or saved as a view) or to be used in alerts. To use them open the respective filter, make your choice and click "Apply" to activate them on your screen.
The following filters are available for you in SEE:
Countries, e.g. to SEE only interests or events in a single country/selection of countries.
Interests, defined by type (point, area, route), tag, or manually selected via the search field.
Travellers, defined by type (all, idle, traveling), or manually selected via the search field.
Keywords, to filter events according to your personal topics or key words in addition to categories.
Time Frames, apply to views only, not alerts.
Data Providers
Event Categories & Severity, e.g. to restrict or exclude certain categories or severity levels for focus (terrorism/militancy, cyber)
Use Case: Monitoring European Political Protests
As an intelligence analyst for a global corporation, you monitor political protests that could impact operations in Europe. Using SEE, you apply the Country Filter to focus on France, Spain, and Germany—where your company has key offices and supply routes. Then, you refine results with the Interests Filter, selecting only locations tagged "HQ" and "Critical Routes" to keep the map focused on essential areas. To capture relevant incidents, you add keywords like "political protest," "strike," and "demonstration" using an OR relationship.
You further tailor results by selecting high-severity Event Categories, including Civil Unrest and Economy, Business & Society, while excluding less relevant ones. To properly judge on likelihoods or recognize patterns you should choose at least one, if not two years of history. Once configured, you save the setup as a View titled "European Protests Monitoring", enabling easy access, sharing, and alerts. This strategic use of SEE filters helps your team stay ahead of disruptions and make informed, timely decisions. For more, see the article "SEE – About".
Save Views
Once you have customized the filters and map type according to your needs, you can save your settings as a View to use them later, share them with colleagues, or to create an alert.
To do this, click on the "View" button.
Create a View (After Applying Filters) Once you’ve applied filters (e.g., country, interests, keywords), you can save your configuration by creating a View:
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Deep dive on Filters
Find a detailed description below on how each filter works along with ideas how to use them.
For all filters you can reset your current settings in any filter by clicking the little circular arrow icon on the top right.
To reset all filters at once use “Clear All” in the filter bar.
To activate them click "Apply" at the bottom of the respective filter menu.
Countries
The Country Filter is an easy way to narrow down your data collection to one or several countries.
When you select a country, such as Germany, only events and interests in Germany will be displayed on the map or list views. After making your selections, simply click "Apply" to see the filtered results.
Interests
The Interests Filter allows you to focus your view on specific interests, whether they have been created by you or shared with you. Only the interests you select will be shown on the map or list views.
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All your interests are also accessible from the top left bar, where you can manage and visualize them in different formats.
Note: 📝 Interest filters applied on the main filters will also be applied to the interest management menu and vice versa.
Keywords
The Keywords Filter allows you to further refine your data by defining specific monitoring terms required in an event report in addition to the other filters (AND relationship). Only events matching your key word conditions will be dispalyed /alerted.
You can define the relationship between the terms entered using:
OR: The results will include events that match any of the selected keywords.
AND: The results will only include events that match all of the selected keywords.
NOT: The result will not include events including any of the terms specified. Use this option to exclude certain terms, helping to filter out unwanted noise.
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💡 User Tip:
For multi-word terms (like “Champions League Finals”) write the term without a space, like “championsleaguefinals”, see the screenshot.
Event Categories
The Category and Severity Filter is a combination filter that allows you to fine-tune your data by selecting event categories of interest and/or specifying the severity level for all individual categories.
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Event Categories and Symbols:
Understanding the range of event categories is essential for effective risk assessment and management. Below, you will find each event category along with its corresponding symbol, making it easier to quickly interpret their meanings:
Event Categories: Terrorism / Militancy, State Repression, Security/Other Politics, Government & Legislation, Infrastructure & Transport, Health & Safety Hazards, Environmental Hazards, Economy, Business & Society, Cyber Crime, Corruption, Civil/Social Unrest Armed Conflict, Undefined
Individual Adjustments: Alternatively, you can also adjust the severity level for each category individually.
For example, you might set all categories to "Medium-High" using the global slider, then make specific changes for categories that need different severity levels (higher or lower). Additionally, individual categories which are not relevant to your specific case can be deselected.
💡 User Tip:
You may want to focus alerts on events that matter most to your organization and are likely to have an impact on your operations. Hence you can restrict your view (the basis for your alert) by selecting only specific categories or raising severity levels of less important categories (meaning: exclude low-level events) to reduce the noise. This is especially useful, when your alert is global and not interest (proximity) controlled, i.e. interest filter is toggled off to get e.g. all “terrorism" events of "major" severity, worldwide”. Have a look at the historic data to judge the content and volume to expect, fine-tune again before creating the alert.
Data Providers
The Data Providers Filter compiles all available data sources, allowing you to control which providers contribute to your view/alerts.
Selection Options: You can choose to:
Select All: Include data from all available providers.
Select Specific Providers: Pick and choose the providers that are most relevant to your needs, allowing you to tailor your alerts to your preferred sources.
Select None (not possible for alerts): Exclude all providers, which might be a useful starting point for a new filter strategy or when doing an interest based briefing view.
💡 User Tip:
“Community” are events added by the Creolytix community. This can be events your colleagues post internally or also events posted “Public” by any Creolytix user.
Time
The Time Filter allows you to select specific timeframes for your data, either by choosing pre-defined periods or by manually selecting dates with a calendar picker. This way you can analyze or compare events within a precise time window or period. .
Pre-Defined Periods: You can quickly choose from pre-set time intervals, such as past 1hr (default), 6 hours, 12 hours, 1 day, etc. from the date and time your are now.
Note: Period time filters are rolling. This means, when you select "1 day” and save it as a view, the view will always show data from the last 24 hours whenever you apply it.
Selecting an Exact Period: If you need data for a specific, fixed timeframe, use the "Select Period" option to manually choose dates with the calendar picker.
Time in Alerts: Alerts ignore the time filter set for a view. You will receive all new events matching your filter criteria.