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I would have preferred to see it implemented as a spreadsheet in the cloud.

Well, you can just grab the data very easily: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/download

Yeah, not what I prefer.

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

Why not build your own UX on top of the data?

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...

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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