Briefle words · Data & charts
Diverging palette
A color scale with two hues running out from a neutral middle, used when values spread above and below a meaningful center.
Say it to an AI
A 4×2 tile grid of hubs, each showing its on-time rate minus the 95% target in percentage points. Values sit either side of zero, so use a diverging palette (orange below, neutral grey near zero, blue above) with a legend bar, not a sequential palette that buries the target mid-ramp.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Hub performance tiles”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →Weekly hub scorecard in the operations console of a parcel-delivery network.
Why: A's tiles go orange for hubs under target and blue for hubs over it, with near-zero Cardiff in grey.
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