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tufte-vdqi

v4.0.0

Edward Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information — two executable skills (tufte-critique, tufte-chart) backed by a VDQI-sourced principles reference. Critiques graphics against a nine-criterion VDQI rubric with named chartjunk species and a 13-entry catalogue of dissected failures, and renders per-genre charts (time-series, small multiples, quartile plot, range-frame scatter) plus a tufte-css HTML wrapper.

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By George Nurijanian309 GitHub starsUpdated 2 months ago

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Source updated
Jul 23, 2026
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Install tufte-vdqi for Claude Code

Installs for the current user
claude plugin marketplace add IchenDEV/agent-plugin-mkt
claude plugin marketplace update agent-plugin-marketplace
claude plugin install tufte-vdqi@agent-plugin-marketplace

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Claude Code. They add and refresh the PluginsMP catalog, then install this plugin.

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Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/gnurio/tufte-vdqi-plugin

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The repository root is the plugin root.

Plugin files

tufte-vdqi/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
├── skills/tufte-chart/SKILL.md
└── skills/tufte-critique/SKILL.md

Included Skills2

tufte-chartskills/tufte-chart/SKILL.md

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 existing graphic (`tufte-critique`).

tufte-critiqueskills/tufte-critique/SKILL.md

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 good; what is wrong with it; whether it is misleading or distorted; or how to clean up, declutter, or simplify it. Not for producing a chart file (`tufte-chart`).

Plugin manifests1

.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "tufte-vdqi",
  "version": "4.0.0",
  "description": "Edward Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information — two executable skills (tufte-critique, tufte-chart) backed by a VDQI-sourced principles reference. Critiques graphics against a nine-criterion VDQI rubric with named chartjunk species and a 13-entry catalogue of dissected failures, and renders per-genre charts (time-series, small multiples, quartile plot, range-frame scatter) plus a tufte-css HTML wrapper.",
  "author": {
    "name": "George Nurijanian"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/gnurio/tufte-vdqi-plugin",
  "repository": "https://github.com/gnurio/tufte-vdqi-plugin",
  "keywords": [
    "data-visualization",
    "tufte",
    "graphics",
    "design",
    "data-ink-ratio",
    "visual-display",
    "lie-factor",
    "chartjunk",
    "small-multiples",
    "graphical-excellence"
  ]
}

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