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Data Charts Checklist Worksheet

This document provides a checklist for designing effective data charts. It includes questions in three categories: messaging and verifiability, design, and text. The checklist aims to ensure charts clearly communicate a key point, use accurate and verifiable data, have a proper chart type selected, avoid visual distortions or clutter, and have legible text elements arranged hierarchically. Completing this checklist for each chart can help present data in a clear, understandable, and truthful manner.

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Data Charts Checklist Worksheet

This document provides a checklist for designing effective data charts. It includes questions in three categories: messaging and verifiability, design, and text. The checklist aims to ensure charts clearly communicate a key point, use accurate and verifiable data, have a proper chart type selected, avoid visual distortions or clutter, and have legible text elements arranged hierarchically. Completing this checklist for each chart can help present data in a clear, understandable, and truthful manner.

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Data Charts Checklist

INSTRUCTIONS

Use this checklist as you design data charts for your next presentation. Fill out one checklist for
each chart you’re designing. Add a check to indicate “yes” in response to a question.

Chart:

Messaging and Verifiability


 Does the data clearly communicate one key point?
 Is the data accurate and verifiable?
 Is there a source provided for the data?
 Is there a link to the complete data set or raw data, where appropriate?
Design
 Have you selected the right type of chart for the goal you want to achieve in
presenting this data; for example, to show comparisons, proportions, or
distributions of data?
 Is the chart free of any visual distortions (such as three-dimensional
components) that would distract, confuse, or mislead your audience?
 Will the arrangement of elements in the chart (such as chronological or
largest segment first) help viewers understand the data’s meaning?
 If the chart has x- and y-axes, are the intervals equidistant?
 Is the chart free from clutter such as unnecessary text, graphics, borders,
shadow effects, or dark grids?
 Does the chart use color strategically; for example, to emphasize the most
important information?
 Will the chart colors be legible to people with color blindness?
 Will the chart be legible if printed in black and white?
Text
 Does the chart’s title clearly communicate the key point made by the data?
 Are the axes or segments of the chart labeled appropriately?
 Are the labels placed close to the data?
 If you have to use a legend for the chart, is it easy to understand?
 Does the chart show descriptions or annotations essential for explaining the
meaning of the data?
 Are the type sizes hierarchical (title in the largest size, followed by subtitles,
labels, axis/segment labels, and source)?
 Will the text be legible to all members of your audience?

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