What the picker changes

Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
12-week heatmap & outlet matrix — show the 12 weeks ending at the selected week (they slide back with the picker, they aren’t a fixed snapshot).
Per-topic volume / alias drift — same 12-week trailing window, anchored on the selected period.
Coverage gap quadrant — scores the selected period against the 12 weeks before it (not including it).
Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.

What stays as-is

Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
Source & topic profiles — all-time data for the topic; the picker doesn’t affect them.

Rolling 7 days is a sliding live window for “current vibes”; switch to Weekly to compare specific weeks side-by-side.

Weekly Rolling 7 days

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Topic · social

Child Poverty Reduction

50 posts · 9,285 engagement · first seen 23 Mar 2023 · last seen 25 Oct 2026

New Zealand government policy debates, targets, and legislative commitments aimed at measuring and reducing the rates of child poverty and material hardship, including the adequacy of budgetary measures, social investment approaches, and the roles of government agencies and charities.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 22 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

36%

45%

14%

Supportive 8 Critical 10 Dismissive 3 Neutral / explainer 1

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 23 classified posts that reference this topic. Distinct from stance: a post can be supportive of the topic and still negative in tone (an angry supporter) — the two together capture the texture short-form posts compress into very few words.

17%

22%

61%

Positive 4 Neutral 5 Negative 14

Platform mix

Where the conversation is happening. Engagement is volume-weighted (likes + 2×shares + 3×replies); a small number of high-impact posts can outrank a high-volume but low-engagement platform.

facebook

2 posts · 2,162 engagement

2,162
reddit

2 posts · 692 engagement

692
twitter

2 posts · 24 engagement

24
youtube

17 posts · 14 engagement

14

Child Poverty Reduction

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

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