Chapter 4: Creating a Simple Report

4.1 Introduction

In the Report phase of the Visual Analytics methodology, you need to create reports that are based on your discoveries. Reports should be organized, easy to navigate, versatile, and attractive. You can organize content by adding multiple pages to your reports. Your reports should focus on telling a single data story. Pages can then be used to tell parts of that story (like chapters in a book). You can make your reports easy to navigate by adding descriptions to define the purpose and instructions to describe the features of your report. You can make your reports versatile (or interactive) by adding animations, ranks, prompts, actions, and links. Finally, you can add styles and display rules ...

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