Managing project size
It is important to pay attention during the design phase to what is going to be included in your project, so you can make, in advance, the decision to split a project into smaller more manageable sub-projects. If a project is too large, it becomes hard to maintain — especially when multiple people are collaborating on it. A project that is too large is difficult to update and improve.
Here are some cases for which you might want to break down a big project into several smaller ones:
The data can be split into smaller portions. If you find that one part of your input data corresponds to a certain section of your document and another part to a different section, this could be a good reason to separate the project into two.
You are writing narratives for different audiences. Sometimes we want to express the same information (or input data) in very different ways. For example, you could describe the data for two different user personas, where one is more interested in a summarized version and the other is more interested in a very detailed breakdown. This could potentially make your project too large and unwieldy, so it’s a good candidate for two separate projects.
Note
When breaking a large project into smaller ones, you will need to combine the resulting narrative outputs externally to NLG Studio.
