I’m a statistician who has to write data as a singular. Don’t get me started on style guides….

House style is to write with some lower case if you can pronounce it as a word: NHS but Nafta.

www.bbc.co.uk/newsstylegui...

Looks like the left hand col is an size of trade deficit with a country (relative to total imports from that country).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Trump says that there’s a “minimum baseline tariff” of 10% being applied.

Both UK and Singapore are alleged to be imposing 10% tariffs on US (left had col). Unusually, the rate US will charge is not half that but is 10%.

Says US tariffs are set at half the tariffs (including non-tariff trade barriers) that those countries impose on US.

How does publishing data this way help inform the public?

Lunchtime data: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Evening data: www.gov.uk/government/p...

...there was a new figure (19k returns!) and a press release embargoed until 1700, when a new "data" publication arrived.

The 16.4k covered data up to the end of Dec, which will be made available, in full, scrutinisable detail later this month. Same can't be said for the 19k.

Fig 5 here bit.ly/4aWJ3Qj are the most recent proper data (to Sept 2024).
Most of the figs in yesterday's Home Office comms blitz were not accompanied by proper data.
We got a press release overnight (16.4k returns) with "data" the next day at lunchtime. But by then..

Harder to see a 'crash' in the sense of an immediate recession or a spike in unemployment.

Easy enough to see a sharp, temporary spike in mortgage rates in the months just after. That would have affected hundreds of thousands of people looking for mortgages (out of millions with mortgages).