Design a multivariate display

CTE-6 Order: #6 Design the Visual Story Has Dependencies

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Guidance

Avoid glyph-based displays (Chernoff faces, stars, whiskers) — no demonstrated real-world effectiveness. Prefer a parallel-coordinates plot with brushing/filtering, or a colorblind-safe diverging-color heatmap (never red/green, never black as the "near zero" color), to compare multivariate profiles. Use a clustering/similarity-ranking algorithm, not eyes alone, to group items, then visualize the groups (e.g. in a trellis).

Details

Order:: #6
Phase:
Predecessor:: CTE-5 Design a correlation display
Created:: Sep 18, 2026
Last Updated:: Sep 18, 2026

Workflow

Choose Chart per Analysis Type

Apply a chart-selection rule set for each of the six recurring analysis types so every finding gets the display type …

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Assigned Agent

EDA Practitioner

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

Required Skills

Chart-Type Selection per Analysis Type Chart Design

Rules

Avoid glyph-based multivariate displays avoid-glyph-based-multivariate-displays
Colorblind-safe, non-black-midpoint heatmap coloring colorblind-safe-non-black-midpoint-heatmap-coloring

Input Artifacts

No input artifacts

Output Artifacts 1

Chart-Type Selection Table Document Required