These five questions will help give your numbers meaning:
1. Am I presenting or circulating my data?
2. Am I using the right kind of chart or table?
3. What message am I trying to convey?
4. Do my visuals accurately reflect the numbers?
5. Are my data memorable?.
Clarity of purpose is key. If you don't know what you want and where you're going, you'll never get there.
A sink-or-swim list of questions,