Information design

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Choosing the chart that fits the question

Lesson 2 of 12 in Information design.

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The chart follows from the question rather than from the data. Four questions cover nearly everything: which is bigger, how did it change, what is it made of, and do these two move together. Each has a form that answers it better than the others.

An ink drawing of a desk with a sticky note at the top and three sketched chart cards below, as a hand slides the bar chart card forward.
The question on the note picks which chart to draw.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Which is bigger. Bars, almost always.”

    • Dual axis
    • Comparison
    • Actionability
    • Explanatory diagram
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “How it changed over time. A line.”

    • Form
    • Sequential palette
    • Provenance
    • Trend
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “What it is made of. A stacked bar, rarely a pie.”

    • Trend
    • Form
    • Composition
    • Sequential palette

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