Divergence weather

How split is the news today?

One reading per day: the average divergence score of every story analyzed that day. Spikes are days that sit well above the 90-day mean, annotated with the story that drove them. Scores run 0 to 100 and most days land in the teens and twenties.

Last 7 days
17.9avg score
In line with the 30-day baseline of 18.6.
90-day mean
19.0± 3.1
A spike day is at least 1.25 standard deviations above the mean. 5 spike days and 4 unusually calm days in the window.
0102006-1406-2907-1407-2908-1308-28mean 19.024.924.924.825.624.1
Table view: every day in the window
DayAvgHighStories
2026-06-1416.14717
2026-06-1517.24737
2026-06-1616.75338
2026-06-1722.35332
2026-06-1821.35324
2026-06-1919.54723
2026-06-2019.45314
2026-06-2118.56715
2026-06-2217.96736
2026-06-2321.15341
2026-06-2421.55735
2026-06-2518.65425
2026-06-2621.84726
2026-06-2718.35747
2026-06-2815.43618
2026-06-2917.85735
2026-06-3019.55339
2026-07-0118.15341
2026-07-0216.95328
2026-07-0322.94714
2026-07-0513.25348
2026-07-0914.953186
2026-07-1012.54750
2026-07-1419.863179
2026-07-1524.95334
2026-07-1618.84741
2026-07-1719.25859
2026-07-1813.0298
2026-07-1918.24224
2026-07-2021.24730
2026-07-2124.95837
2026-07-2217.3319
2026-08-2719.267403
2026-08-2817.357225
2026-08-2915.0172
2026-08-3018.65359
2026-08-3118.24856
2026-09-0120.15362
2026-09-0216.83833
2026-09-0324.86156
2026-09-0425.63824
2026-09-0524.13814
2026-09-1016.653279
2026-09-1118.85387

Spike days

Days well above the mean, and the highest-scoring story on each.

By topic, this week against the month

Seven-day average per category, and how far it sits from that category's 30-day average.

health12.4 -1.8
war25.3 -1.3
ai17.0 -1.2
politics20.7 -0.7
economy15.4 -0.6
other12.7 -0.1
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