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Date formatting
Writing dates on an axis in the shortest human form that is unambiguous for the audience, such as 'Oct 5', 'Fri, Oct 16' or "Q3 '26".
Say it to an AI
Bar chart of open rate per send for October with value labels on the bars and a takeaway title about Friday sends. Use readable date formatting on the axis, weekday plus month and day ('Fri, Oct 16'), not the ISO 8601 strings from the export.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Newsletter open rates”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →Per-send open-rate chart in the analytics view of a newsletter publishing tool.
Why: B's labels drop the repeated year and add the weekday; A's keep the full year-month-day string from the export.
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