The Georgia Negro: A Social Study - Chart shows pay and hours worked per day for various occupations [LCCN2013650448]
The pattern
This still is filed under Data as proof.
Define
A chart, map, or count that is the argument, not an illustration next to the argument.
Mechanism
Sighted evidence. The reader is asked to believe their eyes: a bar, a share, a spread on a map.
Verdict
The claim is comparative or quantitative and the figure can be read without a caption doing the sell.
Why it works
The construction detail worth stealing is the repeated row index - the numbers one to thirty are written again at the start of each of the three blocks, so a block can be read on its own without the eye tracking all the way back to the occupation names. That is a physical join key, and it is what lets three unrelated variable sets share one sheet without a spine down the middle. Counts are entered as tallies rather than percentages, which keeps the document at the level of schedules received rather than conclusions drawn.
Steal this when
Use it for a wide reference table where several variable blocks must sit side by side and the reader will scan one block at a time. Repeat the row key at the head of every block whenever a table is too wide for the eye to carry a label across.