BU208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Line Graph
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A title that tells the story of the visual shown. A clean indication of what the data are. Labels or legends identifying axes, colours, symbols, and so forth. The source of the data, if you created the visual from data someone else gathered and compiled. The source of the visual, if you reproduce a visual that someone else created. For maximum audience impact: tell your readers or listeners what they are about to see, show your audience what you promised to show them, tell them the significance of the visual. Tables: use tables only when you want the audience to focus on specific numbers. Pie graphs: force the audience to measure area. Start at 12:00 with the largest % you want to focus on, make it a perfect circle, label the segments outside of the circle. Every visual should: give a title, clearly indicate the data, clearly label units, provide a legend or a label, give the source.
