Work reports in : Shared baseline
Work reports decides what is being compared in under “Shared baseline.” The figure that must stay on the axis is 1920. Drawing it larger does not create a unit. Look first for a cut axis and a missing key. Decoration rarely persuades; it slows reading.
When the story is: recurring reviews, budget bridges, headcount, pipeline. Skip it in cases like: a one-off story that needs a custom visual, or an ad that must shout. Corporate reporting culture after DuPont charts and 20th-c. board packs a small set of honest encodings repeated every cycle
Yes if one claim is visible at a glance in Meta, Google and retail print; otherwise link to a full figure. Yes for lab reports and poster boards if axes, units and a source line are present. Excel or Google Sheets or PowerPoint; export SVG/PDF. Do not rely on hue alone. Label directly and check greyscale.
Work reports: honour a small set of honest encodings repeated every cycle, and switch when a one-off story that needs a custom visual, or an ad that must shout. The core mark of Work reports is a small set of honest encodings repeated every cycle. recurring reviews, budget bridges, headcount, pipeline
Read Work reports as , “Shared baseline,” and 1920. A bar with no unit is not those three.1920
Figures to keep
- Year of the chart
- 1920
- Axis figure
- 1920
- Chart
- Work reports
- How to read it
- Shared baseline
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