NEW: we’re pleased to announce all of our excess deaths data is now public, in CSV format • Data for 24 countries and counting • Down to regions/cities in many cases • Includes numbers for Italy through to end of April

It also feels like this means "clocks go back" and "clocks go forward" might not be the best shorthand to use for moving in and out of daylight saving time 🤔

@odony  Language bias definitely plays a part, but it's still weird & ambiguous in English. e.g to me, "go back in time " absolutely means into the past and "go forward in time " 100% means future, but "the meeting has been moved forward " means brought closer to now... 🤔🤔🤔

Curiouser and curiouser @davidbauer 

Just hosted our first jiaozi-making class over Zoom. Pic 1 the undoubted teacher's pet.

We’re not the only ones collecting and publishing this data. Worth checking out the resources already published by @JCDTozer  & co @TheEconomistat  () and & co at () @atmccann  @nytimes 

We’ve already shared this data directly with academics, but we’re taking the step to make it completely public today so that more people can dig into the numbers, combine with their own datasets etc.

Now for a peak behind-the-scenes: In some cases the data was easy to come-by, with national statistical bodies like @ONS  making timely mortality data readily available. In others, it was trickier...

One day I will see some data online and won’t be able to find a way to extract it from the page, but that day is yet to arrive.