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

Small Business Costs

5 posts · 1,030 engagement · first seen 5 May 2026 · last seen 9 Jun 2026

Immigration Minister Erica Stanford criticizes Act's proposed $6-a-day infrastructure levy, arguing it will disproportionately harm small businesses and rural sectors.

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.

60%

40%

Critical 3 Neutral / explainer 2

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.

20%

80%

Positive 1 Neutral 4

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

3 posts · 717 engagement

717
youtube

1 post · 304 engagement

304
facebook

1 post · 9 engagement

9

Small Business Costs

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

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