Choose the Right Chart for My Question
Match chart type to the question, not the data.
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Help me choose a chart. The question I want the audience to answer: [QUESTION]. My data (columns, types, number of rows): [DATA_DESCRIPTION]. Audience and where it will be seen (slide, report, dashboard, phone): [AUDIENCE_AND_MEDIUM]. Work through this decision tree and show your path: 1. What is the relationship: comparison, change over time, part of a whole, distribution, relationship between two numbers, or location? 2. How many categories and how many time points? 3. Does the audience need exact values or the pattern? Then output: - The recommended chart and why, in two sentences. - Two alternatives with a sentence on when each would be better, and one chart type to avoid for this data and why (for example pie charts with more than five slices, dual axes, 3D). - The specification: x, y, color, sorting, axis start (zero for bars), labels, annotation, title written as a finding (for example "Support tickets fell 18% after the redesign"), and units. - The code in [PLOTTING_LIBRARY] for the recommended chart. - A checklist of five things that would mislead a reader in this chart.
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