Dashboards · The comparison · Element
The context
Whether history is shown alongside the current value.
The part
What it is
A single number with a comparison is better than a bare one; a short history is better than both, because it shows whether the movement is unusual.
A sparkline costs almost no space and prevents most misreadings of a single period.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
The other elements in the comparison
The reference
What the number is compared with.
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How the difference is expressed.
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