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One piece of advice I’ve got a lot of mileage out of is that the title of a graph should be the conclusion.

So instead of “tire wear vs miles driven” it should say “tire wear increases with miles driven”

It saves people, especially non-technical ones, from having to read axes, look at the lines, and come to a conclusion while listening to you talk.

Now, that's a NEW piece of advice I haven't heard before. Thanks!

Also, this applies not only to graphs, but any “findings” slides or section of a research presentation.

Going to add that to the article; been struggling with this one. I have been seeing multiple different approaches for titles that seem to work.

It really fels like a cheat code. Once you start to notice it you'll see it everywhere in newspapers, etc.

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