# General

## Sources

* Label data sources as `{{ dataset title }} - {{ organisation }}`so that users can more easily find the right data source.

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* Link to the official page about the actual dataset, if one exists, otherwise to the homepage of the source organisation.
* Prefer writing source names in full, rather than abbreviated. e.g. `Our world in data` rather than `OWID`
* See if they have a preferred way to be cited and try to use that.

## Number formatting

### Percentage raw data

* Select Value as the default between Value/Percentage presentation in the chart/table
* Disable the Value/Percentage toggle

### Ratios

* Use `""` as the format string - as in - don't use the SI unit formatting, because then 0.789 will look like 789m and people will think it means millions.

### Decimals

If you're going to use format strings that format with SI units, **ensure you configure no more than 2 decimal places or 3 significant digits**, otherwise you could end up with numbers presented as `12.345k` and people will misread the . as a thousand separator due to the three decimal places and think this is `12 345 000`
