https://someperspective.info/updates.html Data refreshes, corrections and changes to Some Perspective. en https://someperspective.info/updates.html#v2.31.0 someperspective-v2.31.0 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Added an external study that reaches this project's governance conclusion by a different method, refreshed the data to August 2026, and fixed three display bugs — one of which had been hiding a chart's data entirely. Added: An independent-corroboration section in Methodology covering Grier & Grier (2026), 'Promises, Promises'. They build a synthetic-control counterfactual over 1984-2013; this project builds composite indices from observed series. Different method, convergent conclusion — with the points of disagreement stated openly rather than smoothed over. Data: CPI 2026 updated to 4.45% (MoSPI July 2026). Unemployment re-cited to the June 2026 PLFS bulletin — the headline 5.5% was unchanged. Correction: MoSPI replaced the CPI 2012=100 index with 2024=100 from the January 2026 print, reweighting on HCES 2023-24. Food's weight fell from 45.86% to 36.75%, so headline CPI now responds less to a food-price shock than it used to. The 2026 figure is not on the same basis as 2014-2025 and is now labelled as such rather than silently spliced onto the older series. Fixed: The Era Comparison detail chart had been rendering with no data line at all — a colour rule matched none of its points and made the whole series transparent. It now draws correctly, split into NDA-I and NDA-II. Fixed: On phones the whole site was zooming out because one wide element stretched the page to roughly three times the viewport width. All fourteen tabs now fit a phone screen properly. Fixed: Era shading and policy-event markers on the Interactive Data chart were never drawing. Security: The two third-party scripts the site loads are now pinned with integrity hashes, so a substituted file on the CDN cannot execute. https://someperspective.info/updates.html#v2.30.1 someperspective-v2.30.1 Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Routine refresh against the public releases available in early July 2026. Data: Unemployment 2026 revised 5.1% to 5.5% (PLFS Monthly Bulletin, May 2026). CPI 2026 set to 3.93%. Changed: Stale-date detection in CI widened, and the build's checkout action pinned to a single version across both workflows. https://someperspective.info/updates.html#v2.30.0 someperspective-v2.30.0 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The site stopped compiling its stylesheet in the browser on every visit and now ships a prebuilt one, with a guard so it cannot silently fall out of date. Changed: Tailwind is compiled ahead of time into a committed stylesheet instead of being generated at page load. Faster first paint and one fewer third-party script. https://someperspective.info/updates.html#v2.28.0 someperspective-v2.28.0 Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The three constructed indices were rebuilt from a single canonical script so both political eras are computed identically. Changed: The Statistical Suppression Index now includes the COVID mortality undercount and the NSO merger; the Fiscal Centralisation Index now treats GST as a structural shift in state taxing power rather than only counting cesses. Method: Both the UPA and NDA decades are now generated by the same script, so no difference between the eras can come from how they were computed.