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L08 · Beyond the Bar Chart

Practice — Mild · Solution

Verified checkpoints

PieceCheck
Map caption"Retail only — excludes Online: $29.89M, 44.7% of revenue"
State barCA $2,907,355 · NY $2,844,168 · TX $2,821,409 (23 states mapped)
Scatter landmarksAurora Signature Bed Frame $941.01 × 922 · Cedarline Petite Floor Lamp $116.77 × 1,399
Heat extremes2.44% Decor–Northeast · 3.82% Furniture–Midwest
Grid finding"Return rates are stable across the business — no region or category approaches a problem level."

Reflection answers

  • Caption-first is claim-first (Lesson 7's habit) applied to scope: deciding what the map must confess before building it means the confession cannot be forgotten in the excitement of a rendering map. Scope statements written after the fact have a way of never being written.
  • "No problem" is a decision-grade answer: it stops a manager from reorganizing a region over noise, and it sets the baseline that makes a future 6% cell instantly visible. Findings of stability are findings — the analyst who only ships drama trains readers to expect drama.