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

Polling Day Reinstatement

5 posts · 13 engagement · first seen 28 May 2026 · last seen 17 Jun 2026

Local election turnout has plummeted to under 32%, prompting calls for urgent reforms to the postal voting system and a return to standardised polling days, amid growing concerns over rates rises and declining public engagement.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 5 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

100%

Supportive 5

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 5 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.

100%

Positive 5

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.

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5 posts · 13 engagement

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Polling Day Reinstatement

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

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