PLN flagged the "2024, everything at once" stats as stale. Root cause: the chart
BARS were data-driven but the PROSE around them was frozen string literals
("334 sample folders", "tripled to 14", "2 → 4 → 14 → 14 → 3-so-far", the section
title, the chart tooltips, the magenta-highlight year). They'd drift the moment
the corpus moved. Now every one of them derives from EDA at render:
- breakoutFacts() reads vocabulary_growth + cadence → peak import month/count, the
breakout year (argmax gigs), the year-over-year multiple, and the gig sequence.
- Story 02's title, dek, legend, note, the magenta band, and both chart tooltips
are templated from it. parsers-over-copy: no number is typed by hand.
- Honesty fix surfaced by the templating: 4→14 gigs is 3.5×, not "tripled" (the old
hand-copy undersold) nor "quadrupled" (a naive round oversells). The multiple-word
only fires when the ratio is within 0.15 of an integer; otherwise it states the
exact "grew 3.5×". Trust the instrument (DESIGN principle 1).
- New freshness badge in the hero reads EDA.as_of and shows days-since (green ≤14d,
amber ≤30d) plus the one-line refresh command (python3 tide.py build). Staleness
is now visible and curable instead of silent — the data is 17 days old today.
Verified in Chromium via Playwright: title/dek/badge all render from data, no
console errors. Follow-up (needs PLN's call): a one-click rebuild from the Bridge
(/api/rebuild → tide.py build) vs the current command hint.
