Google Trends
The third measure of the policy agenda: what the public asks about, next to what the press covers. Google's embeddable widgets rate-limit third-party sites, so the live preview below uses the open Wikipedia-attention proxy — every panel links to the identical query on Google Trends itself. Once the query dictionaries are settled this series joins the eight venues already in the agenda comparison tool.
Design stage — live previewIssue attention, live
Four policy topics, twelve months of public attention — rendered from the open Wikimedia pageviews API.
Attention to policy topics — last 12 months
Live — Wikimedia pageviews API (English Wikipedia, weekly averages); each topic indexed to its own 12-month peak = 100. Refreshes daily.
The same questions in Google Trends
One click opens each query live on trends.google.com — US, past twelve months.
All five issues compared ↗immigration ↗inflation ↗health care ↗crime ↗climate change ↗
From preview to data set
The full public-attention data set maps Policy Agendas topics to curated search-query dictionaries, so search interest can be read on the same topic system as the media and government series. The dictionary and category scheme are being designed with the collaboration's partners.