{"id":"sheet-np-donation-chart-two-years","audience":"nonprofit","category":"spreadsheets","track":"data","technique":"audience","title":"Pick a chart that compares two years of donations","free":false,"task":"Your board wants one slide comparing donations by source in 2025 and 2026. Ask for exactly 4 numbered lines labeled Chart:, Categories:, Series: and Title:, where Categories: lists the 5 sources from largest to smallest 2026 amount, and Title: is a headline sentence with the biggest change and its two numbers. Plain text, under 80 words.","materialLabel":"Your donation totals (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Donations by source ($ thousands), Jan-Oct each year\n\nSource | 2025 | 2026\nOnline | 40 | 30\nGrants | 120 | 180\nCorporate | 50 | 45\nIndividual donors | 140 | 150\nEvents | 70 | 60\nTotal | 420 | 465\n\nNotes:\n- 2026 includes the new Harlow Foundation grant (60k)\n- Board members read the deck on paper, black and white printer\n- Last year's deck used two pie charts side by side and the treasurer said she couldn't compare them\n- Board meeting Nov 19","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":4},{"type":"maxWords","max":80},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not saying what to compare","why":"The AI suggests two pies again, which the treasurer couldn't compare.","fix":"Add: \"Compare each source across 2025 and 2026 on one chart.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Leaving the order open","why":"The AI keeps the table's order, so the biggest source isn't first.","fix":"Add: \"Categories largest to smallest by 2026.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"A label, not a headline","why":"The AI titles it \"Donations by Source\", which says nothing.","fix":"Add: \"Title: a sentence with the biggest change and its numbers.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Long or formatted output","why":"AI adds design tips in bold.","fix":"Add: \"Exactly 4 numbered lines, each under 18 words, plain text.\"","checks":["numberedItems","maxWords","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says what to compare","patterns":["2025 (and|vs\\.?) 2026","compare","two years"]},{"label":"Sets the order","patterns":["largest","biggest first","sort"]},{"label":"Asks for a headline title","patterns":["headline","title:","biggest change"]},{"label":"Names the 4 labels","patterns":["chart:","categories","series:"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown"]}],"hint":"Say what the board needs to compare and what the title should tell them, so the chart makes the point for you.","rubricLabels":["Chart: recommends a grouped (clustered) bar or column chart, not pie charts and not a stacked chart","Categories: lists Grants, Individual donors, Events, Corporate, Online in that order (largest to smallest 2026), with no Total category, and Series: is 2025 and 2026","Title: is a sentence naming Grants rising from $120k to $180k (the biggest change)"]}