---
title: Orders rose each month
description: A small fictional dataset for learning RichView, not a business forecast.
version: 0.0.1
slug: first-report
styles: [scientific, report.rstyle.yaml]
---

## Three months, one clear trend

The example contains 450 orders. Every observation is invented for this tutorial.

```metric
value: 450
label: Total orders
```

```chart
type: bar
title: Orders increased from 120 to 180
data:
  inline:
    - month: Jul
      orders: 120
    - month: Aug
      orders: 150
    - month: Sep
      orders: 180
encoding:
  x: month
  y: orders
axes:
  x:
    label: Month
  y:
    label: Orders
```

*Source: fictional observations invented for this tutorial.*

## Check the observations

The table reads the same values from a report-local CSV. The metric above is an authored value; RichView does not calculate it from the chart.

```table
data:
  csv: data/orders.csv
columns:
  - key: month
    label: Month
  - key: orders
    label: Orders
    format: number
    align: right
total: true
```

*Source: data/orders.csv, containing the same fictional tutorial observations.*

[Download the CSV](data/orders.csv) · [Read the styling YAML](report.rstyle.yaml)

```callout
kind: hold
title: Keep the source and evidence together
body: This is a fictional demonstration. Replace the observations and the authored total together before using it for a real decision.
```