Plan trellis or multi-view layout

ECR-5 Order: #5 Design the Visual Story Has Dependencies

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Guidance

If one chart per conclusion would be cluttered, or you need to compare shapes across many groups, plan a trellis/small-multiples grid (one categorical variable) or a visual crosstab (two categorical variables): every panel must share the same chart type, size and scale, sequenced by magnitude rather than alphabetically. For open-ended exploration, plan tightly-coupled multiple views with shared filtering/brushing instead of one fixed chart.

Details

Order:: #5
Phase:
Predecessor:: ECR-4 Choose pre-attentive encodings by precision hierarchy
Successor:: ECR-6 Reduce over-plotting
Created:: Sep 18, 2026
Last Updated:: Sep 18, 2026

Workflow

Encode and Reduce Clutter

For each conclusion, classify its analytical pattern and choose the scale, reference lines, pre-attentive encodings and layout that make the …

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Assigned Agent

EDA Practitioner

The person or AI system running this playbook end to end — analyst, programmer, and …

Required Skills

Trellis and Multi-View Layout Design Storybook Layout

Rules

Design for working-memory limits design-for-working-memory-limits
Trellis consistency trellis-consistency

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