aref-vc/tufte-claude-skill

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Summary

A Claude Code skill that transforms simple chart requests into data visualizations adhering to Edward Tufte's principles of graphical excellence, distilled from his three foundational books.

Key features

• Tufte-compliant chart generation from natural language prompts
• Distilled from Edward Tufte's three foundational books
• Minimalist, data-ink ratio optimized visualizations
• Seamless integration with Claude Code workflow

Use cases

• Quickly generate publication-ready charts for reports
• Create clear, clutter-free data visualizations for presentations
• Enhance data storytelling with Tufte-inspired design
• Automate chart creation while maintaining high design standards

README excerpt

# 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. <table> <tr> <td align="center" width="33%"><img src="assets/vdqi-cover.svg" alt="The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" width="240"/></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><img src="assets/ei-cover.svg" alt="Envisioning Information" width="240"/></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><img src="assets/ve-cover.svg" alt="Visual Explanations" width="240"/></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><b>The Visual Display of Quantitative Information</b><br/><i>1983 · 2nd ed. 2001</i><br/>_{pictures of <b>numbers</b>}</td> <td align="center"><b>Envisioning Information</b><br/><i>1990</i><br/>_{pictures of <b>nouns</b>}</td> <td align="center"><b>Visual Explanations</b><br/><i>1997</i><br/>_{pictures of <b>verbs</b>}</td> </tr> </table> --- ## 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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