Universal Credit
Personal Finance · first detected 8 Aug 2026 · scored 6 Oct 2026
Not financial advice. A rising topic is not a recommendation to buy, sell or invest in anything.
Trend score
0/100
Opportunity
0/100
Confidence
66%
Trend, 30 days
Why this score
- +Wikipedia views up 1.4× against its 4-week median
- −No source shows a clear spike yet
- +Up 29% on the previous 7 days (average across sources)
- −Already covered heavily (saturation 56%)
- ·Not scored on arXiv (source unavailable); weights rebalanced
How this score was calculated
| Component | Value | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attention growth | 13% | 0.40 | +5.3 |
| Coverage growth | 0% | 0.00 | +0.0 |
| Cross-source breadth | 0% | 0.27 | +0.0 |
| Acceleration | 36% | 0.20 | +7.3 |
| Freshness | 0% | 0.13 | +0.0 |
| Saturation (subtracted) | 56% | 0.25 | −14.0 |
| Trend score (0–100) | 0.0 |
Opportunity = trend 0.0 × (1 − saturation 56%) × stage weight 0.4 × niche relevance 1 = 0.0
Saturation parts: volume 73%, time elevated 64%, mainstream 0%. Spike ratio = mean of the last 3 days ÷ median of days 4–31. A source counts as spiking at ≥ 1.5× and robust z ≥ 2.
| Source | Spike | Robust z | Week over week | Spiking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wikipedia | 1.36× | 0.9 | 29% | no |
Full method: methodology. Rising means rising now; it is not a prediction that a topic will go viral.
Signals by source
Wikipedia views
193/day
2026-09-07 → 2026-10-06 · fetched 7 Oct, 12:59 UTC
New arXiv papers
0/day
2026-09-07 → 2026-10-06 · fetched 7 Oct, 12:03 UTC · not used in today's score
Attention data: Wikipedia pageviews via the Wikimedia Analytics API · Research data: arXiv (thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability) · Data as of 7 Oct, 12:59 UTC
Licences and terms
- Attention data: Wikipedia pageviews via the Wikimedia Analytics API: CC0 (pageview data)
- Research data: arXiv (thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability): Metadata CC0
Key headlines
- DWP: Mum avoids jail in Universal Credit sentencing | The Westmorland Gazettethewestmorlandgazette.co.uk · thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk · 7 Oct 2026
- DWP Universal Credit and Housing Benefit major rules changeyorkpress.co.uk · yorkpress.co.uk · 7 Oct 2026
- DWP Universal Credit and Housing Benefit major rules changewitneygazette.co.uk · witneygazette.co.uk · 7 Oct 2026
- DWP Universal Credit and Housing Benefit major rules changesalisburyjournal.co.uk · salisburyjournal.co.uk · 7 Oct 2026
- DWP Universal Credit and Housing Benefit major rules changegazetteherald.co.uk · gazetteherald.co.uk · 7 Oct 2026
- DWP: Whitehaven mum avoids jail in Universal Credit sentencingnewsandstar.co.uk · newsandstar.co.uk · 7 Oct 2026
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