AttentionPublic discussionHacker News
Attention rose sharply
3.5× its usual variation — much larger than usual
+9 mentionsup over the last 24 hours
Africa
The same four readings, over the topics this product tracks under africa. Every panel below is ranked within that selection rather than filtered out of a world-wide ranking.
World conditions
A fairly ordinary day
- Attentionbelow usual
- Moodmore negative than usual
- Turbulenceactive
Attention33below usual+0.9 ptsup over 24 hours
Where the Attention figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.
How Attention is calculated06:0009:0012:0015:0018:0021:0000:0003:00
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Mood−39more negative than usual−2.5 ptsdown over 24 hours
Where the Mood figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.
How Mood is calculatedRight now 18% positive · 44% neutral · 38% negative — the figure is measured against its usual mix
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Turbulence42active−6.1 ptsdown over 24 hours
Where the Turbulence figure comes from, what it reads and what it does not claim. Method version 5.0.0.
How Turbulence is calculated06:0009:0012:0015:0018:0021:0000:0003:00
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DisagreementNot yet
Fewer than two independent communities have said anything about this part of the world, and one community cannot disagree with itself.
Forecast conditions
Forecast MovementNot yet
This figure has not moved at all across the whole window it is compared against, so there is no spread to place today's reading on.
Forecast Movement measures how much expectations moved, not whether they moved towards any particular outcome. Why there is no single score, why what we can see is reported separately.
Today in brief — the last 24 hours on one page
What changed today
The largest movements across forecasts, attention, discussion sentiment and reporting in the last 24 hours, each compared with how much that topic usually moves.
AttentionSearch & activityFuture Index internal search and pageviews
Attention rose
2.8× its usual variation — larger than usual
25views
+17.5 viewsup over the last 24 hours
Future Index
AttentionPublic discussionMastodon
Attention rose
2.5× its usual variation — larger than usual
+3 mentionsup over the last 24 hours
105 changes were compared.
Signals moving together
No relationships between signals were detected this week. Checked 23 topics: 0 had a forecast contract moving well outside its usual range and 1 had unusually high public attention, and none of them showed a second layer doing something measurable at the same time.
Biggest movers
- Zimbabwe57about usual+10.8 ptsup over 24 hours
- Libya47about usual+7.1 ptsup over 24 hours
- Tanzania49about usual+4.2 ptsup over 24 hours
1 further topic moved less — show it
- Uganda62about usual+2.1 ptsup over 24 hours
Trending topics
Where sources disagree
No topic currently shows a material difference between how much is being published about it and how much it is being discussed. A comparison needs both sides: a topic only one of them has anything to say about is not a disagreement.
The world by category
- Politics21 topics
- Attention
- 21 very quiet
- Mood
- −30 more negative than usual
- Turbulence
- 42 active
- Economy0 topicsNot measured yet
- Conflict5 topics
- Attention
- 38 below usual
- Turbulence
- 49 active
- Technology0 topicsNot measured yet
- AI0 topicsNot measured yet
- Crypto0 topicsNot measured yet
- Climate0 topicsNot measured yet
- Energy2 topicsNot measured yet
- Health0 topicsNot measured yet
- Sports0 topicsNot measured yet
- Entertainment0 topicsNot measured yet
Data conditions
How well this site can currently see. None of this is a reading of the world, and none of it changes the figures above.
- Measurement quality
- 45%
- Coverage
- 55% — 6 of 11 sources reporting
- Freshness
- Up to date
- Representativeness
- Limited
- 2 online communities
- 3 kinds of evidence
- one language scored; 5 items carried no identification
- 1 of 6 regions, over 23 located subjects
How these are worked out, and why they are kept separate from the readings