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

Social Safety Net Demand

19 posts · 1,433 engagement · first seen 24 Jul 2023 · last seen 18 Jun 2026

This piece examines the escalating cost of living in New Zealand, highlighting how rising prices in essentials like food, fuel, and rent are disproportionately affecting Māori communities, renters, and low-income households, while exposing deep structural inequalities and calling

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 18 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

28%

67%

Supportive 5 Critical 12 Neutral / explainer 1

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 18 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.

17%

78%

Positive 3 Neutral 1 Negative 14

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.

facebook

1 post · 896 engagement

896
reddit

1 post · 498 engagement

498
youtube

15 posts · 38 engagement

38
twitter

1 post · 1 engagement

1

Social Safety Net Demand

Stance breakdown

Sentiment breakdown

Platform mix

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