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by amelius 1605 days ago
I would have preferred to see it implemented as a spreadsheet in the cloud.
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StringyBob 1605 days ago
Well, you can just grab the data very easily: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/download
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amelius 1605 days ago
Yeah, not what I prefer.

As a programmer, I want to make demands about UX too, for a change ...

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aembleton 1604 days ago
Why not build your own UX on top of the data?
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rob_c 1604 days ago
The data is exportable but you then have to deal with 8MB+ csv files. Still it's better than it being in docx I suppose...

But then this would let you perform statistical analyses on _their_ data, I'm not sure they're such a big fan of that...

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aembleton 1604 days ago
What format would you prefer it to be in than CSV? There are CSV libraries in pretty much every language and any spreadsheet can import them. 8MB really isn't that hard to handle these days.
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