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by IrishJourno 1402 days ago
That's what I thought happened too: that I had slipped by one combining the descriptions with the numerical data, but it turns out that the first five were permuted when I looked in the data for the presentation engine! Don't quite know how that happened, I suspect a sort went awry at some point and the data and the descriptions fell out of synch. In previous years we just shoveled it all into the interactive app's logic and let it sort it out, but now we preprocess it for reasons explained in the accompanying article. Cheers, S (author of article)