data-lake: Expose the metric/imperial display setting

[ES-Alexander]

Current behaviour

The setting needs to be manually pulled and processed by individual widgets, and cannot be readily accessed in user-created variables, Actions, or components.

Expected or desired behaviour

Expose the variable as a string, with a name like UNITS/displayPreference, with values of "metric" and "imperial".

This could then be used to facilitate things like #1319, and various user integrations/customisations.

Prerequisites

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