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

55 posts · 4,651 engagement · first seen 22 Jan 2015 · last seen 20 Jul 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 41 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

27%

71%

Supportive 11 Critical 29 Neutral / explainer 1

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 41 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.

22%

34%

44%

Positive 9 Neutral 14 Negative 18

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

6 posts · 2,073 engagement

2,073
twitter

9 posts · 725 engagement

725
youtube

26 posts · 342 engagement

342

Regional Infrastructure Funding

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

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