About Le Phare

I'm Matthias Duflos, a French student based in Marseille — a city where the port is simply part of the scenery, and where I picked up the habit of watching ships long before I started counting them. What pulled me in is the question underneath marine insurance: how do you price risk on an ocean you can only observe through imperfect signals? Le Phare is my answer in practice — I designed and built everything here end to end, from the AIS ingestion pipelines and the incident curation to the charts and the weekly brief. Alongside my studies I co-run a small web studio, which is where the craft of making data legible comes from.

Le Phare began as a simple observation: the data that moves marine insurance, transits, incidents, signal integrity, is largely public, yet almost nowhere is it read carefully in the open. A lighthouse does not chase ships; it stands still and makes the water legible. This site tries to do the same with open data.

Everything here is independent student research: no client, no affiliation, no market position. The methodology page says where the data is weak; the sources page says where it comes from.