Updated 2mo ago
by gnurio
tufte-vdqi-plugin
Give your AI agents the skill of visualizing data the way Edward Tufte intended.
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- 2 skills (2 skills found in its SKILL.md files)
- 21 forks (21 forks)
- 2mo ago last update (Last updated 2mo ago)
Install
Skills CLI
npx skills add gnurio/tufte-vdqi-plugin
Asks which skills and agents to install. Just one: npx skills add gnurio/tufte-vdqi-plugin --skill tufte-chart — add -g for every project.
Claude Code
git clone https://github.com/gnurio/tufte-vdqi-plugincp -r "tufte-vdqi-plugin/skills/tufte-chart" ~/.claude/skills/
Copies the tufte-chart skill into ~/.claude/skills/ for every project (use .claude/skills/ for one project). Repeat for the other skills listed below.
Plugin
/plugin marketplace add gnurio/tufte-vdqi-plugin
Run inside Claude Code if the repository ships a plugin marketplace, then pick plugins from /plugin.
Skills can run code on your machine — read the SKILL.md first.
What it does
In the author's own words, from each skill's SKILL.md.
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tufte-chart
Render a real, publication-ready data graphic (SVG or HTML) that obeys Tufte's principles — minimal ink, range-frame axes, direct labels, honest proportions. Use when someone wants to design, build, create, draw, plot, or visualize a chart or graph the Tufte way, or to rebuild a chart after a critique found problems. This is the skill that outputs an actual chart file. Not for critiquing an exist…
skills/tufte-chart/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab) -
tufte-critique
Critique a data graphic against a nine-criterion rubric derived from Tufte's VDQI — score it, name the chartjunk species present, compute the lie factor, compare against the book's named-failure catalogue, and return prioritised fixes tagged with the Tufte remedy (B1–B7), genre to switch to (C1–C10), and exemplar to emulate. Use when someone asks whether a chart, graph, plot, or dashboard is any…
skills/tufte-critique/SKILL.md on GitHub (opens in a new tab)
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Review before you install
A skill is a set of instructions and scripts your agent will follow, and it can run code on your machine. Read the SKILL.md and any scripts first — this listing is not a security review.