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SoS Charts Instructions

Formatting the SoS Charts

Background

Make sure you have installed Helvetica Neue.

Tableau

  1. Load the provided Tableau table.
  2. The link to the worksheet will be broken. Feed it your new worksheet for SL or Liberia
  3. If your column names stay the same then the worksheet SHOULD load smoothly.
  4. Double-check to be sure and fix any obvious errors.
  5. Go to Print, and under the print menu Save as PDF.
  6. The file should export successfully as one chart per page.

Illustrator

  1. Load the exported PDF. You will have to select one of the pages from the PDF and only edit that one.
  2. Ctrl-A, Ctrl-alt-7 to release all clipping masks. Delete them.
  3. Delete all extraneous lines, boxes, etc. Use the provided previous round of charts as models
  4. Change all data colors to #F28964
  5. Change all NULL values to #807F7F (use this grey for other objects too)
  6. Resize any text to the values in the previous round of charts.
  7. Copy-paste across the title from the previous round of charts. Left-align it.
  8. Insert a grey "assessment" label in the appropriate place.
  9. Horizontal bar charts: Resize the left text to 10, right align, center on the bars
  10. Insert .5 thickness #D7D7D7 grey lines behind the bars / lines at appropriate distances. (Just choose what looks good - I aimed for one every third / quarter)
  11. Do any other fiddliness to get the chart looking like the old models.
  12. You're done! Repeat for the other charts.

Final note

Once I broke this down to a process it was fairly rote. I found that programming some AI Actions sped up the text alignment stuff.

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