Methodology
Education-Driven Chart Design (EDCD)
EDCD is the proprietary Trinity Insights methodology that enforces strict coherence between the educational content of a chart and its visual rendering. No Trinity chart is published without complete EDCD validation.
Founding principle - the reciprocal contract
A reader who only reads the education should be able to anticipate what the chart will display. A reader who only looks at the chart should be able to anticipate what the education describes.
Any educational promise without a corresponding visual primitive is a violation. Any visual primitive without educational acknowledgement is a violation. The two artefacts form an inseparable contractual pair.
The 7 Trinity education sections
Each Trinity chart exposes an education structured across seven sections, bilingual FR/EN, fully atemporal:
- whatIsIt - definition and conceptual formula (without revealing the recipe of Trinity proprietary composites).
- howToRead - chart reading guide (axes, scales, legends, zones).
- keyZones - significant thresholds and atemporal interpretation ranges.
- whatToObserve - elements to monitor (divergences, crossovers, events to watch).
- historicalContext - dated factual historical events (halvings, crises, regulatory milestones, etc.).
- expertNotes - advanced nuances for experienced users.
- commonMisinterpretations - common pitfalls to avoid.
Mandatory visual primitives
Every educational promise maps to a measurable visual primitive:
| Education section | Visual primitive |
|---|---|
| whatIsIt | Formula rendered literally (N curves = N declared series). |
| howToRead | Axes, legends, and scales described - all actually rendered. |
| keyZones | Threshold lines or shaded zones with sufficient contrast for legibility. |
| whatToObserve | Markers or annotations on the events cited. |
| historicalContext | The chart history covers the earliest dates referenced. |
Multi-pass institutional validation
Each Trinity chart goes through several orthogonal validation passes before publication:
- Visual contract : drafting of the primitive ↔ educational source table before any development.
- Automated audits : checks for catalog coherence, editorial leakage, regulatory compliance, and analytical parameters.
- Deterministic visual review : checklist of observable elements (secondary axes, scales, threshold zones, overlay quality).
- High-definition multi-theme captures : rendering of the chart across all supported themes and timeframes.
- Institutional quality review : demanding evaluation of the renderings against the EDCD scorecard.
- Live interactive validation : testing of toggles, accordions, tooltips, and tabs on the pre-production environment.
Zero tolerance
- No hard-coded values in the educations (no “currently”, no absolute price, no concrete date framed as a present state).
- No directive-tone vocabulary and no suggestive equivalents (AMF compliance - analytical tool only).
- No reference to competing providers in public content.
- No disclosure of the formulas, weights, or inputs of Trinity proprietary composites.