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WORLD EVENT LITERACY

World-Event Visualization Planner

A deterministic, local-only planner that recommends presentation families from the reader task, geographic shape, chronology, uncertainty, source density, motion preference, and bandwidth constraints.

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Confidence: Moderate
Sources: 5
Independent corroboration: 0
Jurisdiction: International / varies by event, archive, and platform
Date range: Historical and contemporary; source reports preserved in WIP.22
Review: Repository-authored WIP.24 interactive synthesis — historical, archival, cartographic, accessibility, cognitive-load, rights, and affected-community review pending

Estimated reading: 17 minutes
Review date: 2026-07-24
Stable route: /international/event-literacy/visualization-planner

Source boundary · evidence boundary

Local-only educational mode-selection aid. It sends no choices to a server, loads no external map, ranks no event or population, and authenticates no source. Its deterministic rules are repository-authored from unreviewed protected reports and remain revisable through specialist and affected-community review.

LEVEL 1

ORIENTATION

Why this matters

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One-sentence brief

A globe, map, timeline, network, document reader, or mixed view can each clarify one question and distort another. Selecting the mode from the evidence and task reduces spectacle, hidden uncertainty, and false causal inference.

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Three key points

Choose a primary mode from the reader's task and the shape of the evidence, not from visual novelty.
High uncertainty requires textual explanation and source visibility, not just a visual effect.
Reduced motion and constrained bandwidth can change the recommended primary mode, not merely add a fallback after design is complete.

LAB

LOCAL-ONLY PLANNING AID

Choose a presentation family from the task and evidence

No external map, source authentication, event ranking, or causal proof

The planner uses bounded choices and transparent repository-authored rules. It does not load a dataset, geolocate a person, contact an external service, or decide whether an event account is true.

Reader task and evidence shape Primary reader task Geographic shape Chronology Evidence uncertainty Source or mark density

Access and evidence constraints

Reduced-motion mode must be primary Constrained bandwidth or low-power device Readers must inspect primary documents or excerpts Keyboard-first operation required

DETERMINISTIC OUTPUT

Evidence, context, and limits

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Start with the reader task

Locating, tracing change, comparing states, inspecting documents, explaining relationships, quantifying trends, and teaching a sequence require different visual structures.

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Describe the evidence shape

Geographic scale, temporal pattern, uncertainty, source density, and relationship structure determine which visual encodings are legible and honest.

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Treat access constraints as design inputs

Reduced motion, keyboard-only use, screen readers, magnification, mobile screens, and constrained bandwidth should affect the initial mode choice.

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Read primary and supporting modes

The planner recommends two presentation families and explains the rule trace. A supporting document or statistical view may be necessary even when the map or timeline is primary.

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Carry required disclosures

Cropping, sequencing, animation, projection, summarization, and uncertainty are editorial transformations. Their presence and limits must remain visible.

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No visual proves causality

A polished map or animation cannot authenticate a source, establish a causal mechanism, fill an archival gap, or resolve a contested historical interpretation.

LEVEL 3

COMPLETE DOSSIER

Limitations, game links, and review context

DISPUTED / MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS

Known limitations and gaps

These workbenches are educational, local-only decision aids. They do not inspect uploaded files, contact a provider, save visitor inputs, authenticate a source, or grant publication, specialist, production, or activation approval.
The underlying supplied reports remain unreviewed research leads. Their institutional references, standards citations, numerical thresholds, algorithms, and performance claims require claim-specific verification.
The deterministic recommendations are transparent repository-authored heuristics, not universal safety limits, legal advice, clinical judgments, or substitutes for accountable human review.
No result may be used to rank a country, population, protected group, diagnosis, language, disability, migration history, religion, or other vulnerable status.
A pass in a browser workbench is evidence for discussion only; it cannot authorize a live provider, autonomous runtime, operational influence capability, or production tuning.
The planner recommends presentation families, not a particular library, map projection, dataset, historical interpretation, or publication decision.

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Related public learning

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Glossary cross-reference

Terms are defined for this site’s evidence method, not as universal legal or clinical definitions.

presentation-mode matrix decision trace visual uncertainty reduced-motion fallback

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Decision matrix

Presentation families answer different questions.
Reader task	Likely primary family	Supporting family	Primary risk
Locate or compare geography	Static map or before-and-after	Document or statistical panel	Projection, scale, and cropped context
Trace sequence or change	Timeline or small multiples	Map or document reader	Omitted intervals and false causality
Explain relationships	Network graph	Timeline or map	Hairball clutter and inferred direction
Inspect source evidence	Document reader	Timeline or map	Source omission and decontextualized excerpts
Quantify change	Statistical panel	Map or document reader	Hidden denominators and uncertainty
Teach a guided sequence	Narrative sequence	Static overview and transcript	Scrolljacking, spectacle, and motion dependence

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Publication audit checklist

Task fit

Does the primary mode directly support the reader's main question?

Pass condition: The mode is selected from the task and evidence shape, not visual novelty.

Source access

Can every consequential mark, sequence, crop, and summary be traced to accessible source context?

Pass condition: Source links, dates, uncertainty, and transformations remain visible.

Access parity

Can keyboard, reduced-motion, screen-reader, mobile, and low-bandwidth users reach the same conclusion?

Pass condition: A semantic transcript, structured table, and static alternative carry equivalent information.

Rollback

Is there a defined condition for removing or simplifying a misleading visualization?

Pass condition: Confusion, source mismatch, geographic error, motion harm, or context loss triggers revision or rollback.

LEVEL 4

RESEARCH EDITION

Sources, methods, and stable links

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Linked reports

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Method and corrections

This page follows the public method for provenance, confidence, source independence, alternative accounts, limitations, review state, and visible correction.

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