Sourcing and methodology FAQ

The sector dashboards use public data only: federal agencies such as the EIA, USGS, CMS, BTS and USAspending, the College Scorecard and the Bitcoin blockchain. Each chart names its source and the date of its data, and the Sources page lists every feed with its licence.

The members' reports go further. They add company filings, research from industry bodies, national laboratories and rating agencies, and news reporting where no primary source exists. Every source is listed in the report's appendix and on the report sources page.

In a fixed order: official data first, then company filings, then research, then news. When a website repackages official data, we cite the agency instead. Market-data providers are used only for share prices, fund data and analyst consensus, with one cutoff date stated, and are tagged separately.

Dashboards refresh on each source's own schedule: daily for river gauges and the Bitcoin blockchain, weekly for gas storage, monthly for electricity, defense and space spending and transportation, and yearly for health spending, college costs and mineral imports.

Each report states its data date on the cover, and the next edition is planned for January 2027. Data can be revised by its source after publication.

Every figure is checked against the source named, at the date named. When an original source disagrees with a secondary one, the original wins and the text changes. The report build flags any source that is listed but never cited, and lists secondary sources that may have an official original.

The short member reports on each sector page are checked automatically: any number that is not in that sector's data file is rejected before publication.

It is left out, or shown as a dash. A headline, a snippet or a paywalled page is not enough to support a number. Credit ratings that cannot be confirmed from a public source are shown as a dash rather than guessed.

They are Point75's judgment, and they are labeled as such. Forecast figures from agencies such as the EIA or CBO are attributed to them. Our calls are specific, dated and graded on a named public source, and later editions report how each one turned out. See Forecasting.

No. Point75 is for education and information. Companies are named to illustrate where a sector's earnings and risks sit, not as recommendations to buy or sell. The author may hold positions in companies mentioned; each report says so.

Email hello@point75.io with the report, the page and the figure or statement you think is wrong, and the source you are relying on if you have one. We check it against the original source.

If we were wrong, we correct the report and log the correction, with its date, on the Methodology changes page. We do not make quiet edits.

Members' reports are for the member's own use and are not for redistribution. The dashboards' underlying data keeps its original licence, listed on the Sources page.