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

live window

Topic · social

Regional Economic Development

88 posts · 23,422 engagement · first seen 14 Apr 2016 · last seen 6 Sep 2026

Policies, investments, and government initiatives aimed at stimulating economic growth and job creation in New Zealand's regions, including infrastructure funding, development deals, industry support, and partnerships between central government, local councils, iwi, and the private sector.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 39 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

41%

44%

13%

Supportive 16 Critical 17 Dismissive 1 Neutral / explainer 5

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 39 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.

41%

31%

28%

Positive 16 Neutral 12 Negative 11

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.

reddit

15 posts · 1,983 engagement

1,983
facebook

3 posts · 1,753 engagement

1,753
twitter

6 posts · 1,472 engagement

1,472
youtube

15 posts · 92 engagement

92

Regional Economic Development

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

Top posts by engagement