“Or hell even divorcing the graph creation responsibilities from writer positions entirely, giving it to someone who can create graphs for all writers as work order requests or some sort.”

I would welcome some discussion as to which is more important: accuracy in the information being disseminated or encouraging data literacy? The former isn’t a completely fool-proof solution as there are plenty of senior analysts who make similar mistakes. I don’t think it’s out of reach for a writer to create data visualisations — they have to have enough understanding to comprehend it as a reader, after all.

So I think that either a mixture of your suggestions, or improving data intuition (at all levels) would be an ideal route. What are your thoughts on this?