# Hot Topics

> Recently surging keywords — emerging topics in the latest years.

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:alt: Hot Topics
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The Hot Topics widget.
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## Overview

Ranks keywords by how strongly their usage has risen over a recent look-back
window, surfacing the corpus's current "hot" topics. A lighter, recency-focused
complement to **Burst Detection**.

## Inputs
- **Data** (`Table`) — keywords + Year.

## Outputs
- **Hot Topics** (`Table`) — ranked emerging topics with their growth.

## Controls
- **Keywords column** — the field to analyse.
- **Lookback (yrs)** — size of the recent window over which growth is measured.
- **Top N** — number of hot topics to return.

**Actions:** `Find Hot Topics`.
