Work reports in 1920: Shared baseline
One annotation sentence. Date the source. Keep Work reports with “Shared baseline” and 1920 from 1920. Variant 1 of Work reports (QBR pack). Same encoding, different layout.
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 The eye compares length and position more accurately than area. PowerPoint, Excel or Google Sheets and Meta, Google and retail print share the same geometry. Decoration rarely persuades; it slows reading. Perspective distortion wrecks comparison. Keep it flat.
Keep axis, unit, and year. If “Shared baseline” is the axis, the figure is 1920 and the year is 1920. Keep Work reports with “Shared baseline” and 1920 from 1920. 19201920
Figures to keep
- Year of the chart
- 1920
- Axis figure
- 1920
- Chart
- Work reports
- How to read it
- Shared baseline
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