# tufte-claude-skill A Claude Code skill that turns "make me a chart" into a Tufte-compliant chart. Distilled from the three foundational books by Edward R. Tufte.


The Visual Display of Quantitative Information 1983 · 2nd ed. 2001 _{pictures of numbers}	Envisioning Information 1990 _{pictures of nouns}	Visual Explanations 1997 _{pictures of verbs}

--- ## Install Clone into your Claude Code skills directory: ```bash git clone https://github.com/aref-vc/tufte-claude-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/tufte ``` That's it. Claude Code auto-loads the skill on next launch. To verify, run `/tufte` or ask Claude to "make a chart of anything." To update later: ```bash cd ~/.claude/skills/tufte && git pull ``` To uninstall: ```bash rm -rf ~/.claude/skills/tufte ``` --- ## The three books, distilled Tufte gives the three-book taxonomy himself on page 9 of *Visual Explanations*: - **VDQI** — how to depict data and enforce statistical honesty. The book that gave us *data-ink ratio*, *chartjunk*, *lie factor*, *small multiples*. - **EI** — how to lay out information in space. Layering, micro/macro readings, color rules, escaping flatland. - **VE** — how to show motion, causality,

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