Goal: cost and budget
Reader: FinOps and finance breaking down spend and budgets. Meta cluster: A — data & metrics Scenarios: 6 · Examples: 12
Scenarios
| Scenario | Tier | Engines | Example files |
|---|---|---|---|
| budget split | T0 | echarts, infographic | pie-budget-share.md<br>budget-allocation-donut.md<br>cost-structure-split.md |
| cost walk | T0 | echarts, infographic | run-rate-waterfall.md<br>cost-reduction-waterfall.md<br>budget-drawdown-waterfall.md |
| spend hierarchy | T0 | echarts, vega | treemap-portfolio-breakdown.md<br>sunburst-lifecycle-share.md<br>cost-center-treemap.md |
| cost vs capacity | T1 | vega | capacity-cost-dual-axis.md |
| spend by scope | T1 | echarts | cloud-spend-nested-pie.md |
| variance vs plan | T1 | echarts | headcount-variance-diverging-bars.md |
Reading order
Split by category for the mix, hierarchy views for where the mass sits, waterfalls for what changed.
Engines in this goal
echarts— report-grade charts and dashboardsinfographic— template-driven boards, sequences and comparisonsvega/vega-lite— statistical views where the data needs transforms
Details, limits and anti-patterns: ../engines/echarts.md · ../engines/infographic.md · ../engines/vega.md.
Palette
Every figure takes its colours from a theme. Pick one in
../styles/palette.md — the token contract, the theme index and the
per-engine blocks all start there.
Most figures in this set want Default. Depart from it for the medium, not the topic: Print when it may be photocopied, Contrast for low vision or large-print handouts, Vivid when it will be projected, Accessible when colour must not be the only cue, Editorial for long-form reading, Slate for technical reference, Pastel when the figure sits inside gentle prose, Nord for a cool Nordic register. Every theme is designed for a light ground — the set has no dark page.
Don't
- A pie with ten cost lines → treemap or ranked bars
- A waterfall whose steps are independent measures