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 Infrastructure Funding

75 posts · 5,740 engagement · first seen 22 Jan 2015 · last seen 6 Sep 2026

Government allocation of dedicated funding to support infrastructure, transport, education, cultural, and economic development projects in New Zealand's regions, including mechanisms such as the Regional Infrastructure Fund.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 37 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

30%

65%

Supportive 11 Critical 24 Dismissive 1 Neutral / explainer 1

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 37 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.

19%

35%

46%

Positive 7 Neutral 13 Negative 17

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

5 posts · 2,479 engagement

2,479
twitter

10 posts · 677 engagement

677
facebook

1 post · 41 engagement

41
youtube

21 posts · 19 engagement

19

Regional Infrastructure Funding

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

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