Pulse

Pulse is ResearchArk's funding intelligence module, available at pulse.researchark.eu. It transforms raw funding data into actionable strategic intelligence through real-time dashboards, AI-generated insights, and analytical tools that reveal patterns across the research funding landscape.

Where ArkSearch helps you find individual opportunities, Pulse gives you the bigger picture -- the macro-level trends, seasonal rhythms, and emerging signals that shape the funding ecosystem over time.

What Pulse Does

Pulse continuously analyses the ResearchArk funding database -- tens of thousands of active opportunities across global programmes -- and surfaces intelligence across six analytical dimensions:

• Real-time executive dashboard with AI-generated flash insights, urgency heatmaps, and live activity feeds.
• Thematic analysis of discipline distributions, funding type matrices, and interactive topic constellation maps.
• Temporal pattern detection including deadline urgency tracking, seasonal distributions, and funding forecasts.
• Programme-level analytics with per-programme statistics, opportunity counts, and trend tracking.
• Strategic signal monitoring covering regional intelligence, gap assessments, and trending terminology.
• Research frontier mapping using OpenAlex data to plot funding-vs-research momentum and match opportunities to emerging topics.

Data Sources

Pulse draws on several data layers to power its analytics:

• PostgreSQL -- The primary funding opportunity database, providing real-time counts, deadlines, funding amounts, and programme metadata.
• AI Flash Insights -- Generated asynchronously via Celery tasks using the Gemini LLM, producing approximately 170 active insight cards at any given time.
• Redis -- Caching layer that ensures dashboard responsiveness, with visible cache timestamps so you always know how fresh the data is.
• OpenAlex -- Academic topic and publication data used by Research Frontiers to measure research momentum and citation quality signals.

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