About the Trend Radar & methodology

Who runs this and how

The Trend Radar is an automated project of Compsetly (compsetly.com). Rankings, scores, lifecycle stages and the short “why it is rising” sentences are generated by software from public data; no editor writes or checks each entry before it appears.

The page is rebuilt on a schedule (about every 3 hours), so what you see can be hours old. Every page shows a “Data updated” timestamp; the same data is published as JSON at /data/radar.json.

This site has no ads, no analytics, no cookies and no third-party scripts. It does not sell or collect personal data.

Sources (all public, read-only)

Each topic card links to the original headlines or the official source when one was found. Sources read:

Official sources monitored

Agency feeds read in this build: BLS, BOE, CPSC recalls, EIA, FDA recalls, Federal Reserve, IGN sismologia, La Moncloa, MLB, NASA, NOAA NHC, NWS alerts, USGS.

How the score works

Each topic gets a 0–100 score that blends velocity (how fast attention is growing), volume, an estimated advertising value of its category, and a coverage gap (how few monitored outlets cover it and whether an official primary source exists). It is a ranking aid based on heuristics, not real CPC or traffic data, and not a statement that the topic is true or important.

Lifecycle labels (Emerging, Peaking, Fading) come from the history of previous runs and are marked provisional until there are several observations.

What is never shown

Topics about people (biographies, detected through Wikidata), deaths, violence, missing persons, nudity or leaks, and health or medical topics are filtered out. If the check cannot be completed, the topic is hidden. Items without a matching official source are labelled as such, and a general agency link is never presented as confirming a specific fact.

Limits and corrections

Automated output can be wrong or out of date: no guarantee of accuracy, completeness or timeliness, and nothing here is professional (financial, legal or medical) advice. Always check the linked sources. Answer pages written for specific questions live on trends.compsetly.com · tendencias.compsetly.com.