Tufte Vdqi Marketplace
Score and render Tufte-style quantitative graphics so dashboards and reports avoid chartjunk and lie factor.
Overview
Tufte-vdqi-marketplace is a plugin marketplace for the Build phase that packages three Tufte VDQI skills to assess, score, and render honest quantitative graphics in Claude Code.
What is this marketplace?
- Three executable skills: orchestrate-tufte-vdqi, assess-graphical-excellence, render-tufte-chart.
- Scores graphics against Tufte’s nine criteria with named chartjunk species.
- 13-entry catalogue of dissected visualization failures for concrete critique.
- Renders per-genre charts: time-series, small multiples, quartile plot, range-frame scatter.
- tufte-css HTML wrapper for presentation-ready static output.
- 1 plugin in marketplace
- 3 skills: orchestrate, assess, render
- 9 Tufte scoring criteria
Community signal: 249 GitHub stars.
What problem does it solve?
Indie builders ship misleading or cluttered charts that undermine trust because they lack a systematic Tufte-style review loop.
Who is it for?
Solo builders publishing metrics in slides, docs, or lightweight product analytics who want agent-driven Tufte critique and chart output.
Skip if: Teams needing enterprise BI suites, real-time dashboard backends, or pixel-perfect marketing illustration without quantitative rigor.
What do I get? / Deliverables
You get scored assessments against nine Tufte criteria and reproducible chart renders aligned to data-ink and lie-factor discipline.
- VDQI assessment with nine-criteria scoring
- Rendered Tufte-genre charts and HTML wrapper pages
- Documented chartjunk and failure-pattern feedback for revision
Plugins in this marketplace
1 plugin — install individually after you add the marketplace.
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Journey fit
Canonical shelf is build/docs because the bundle produces assessment reports and renderable chart artifacts for product and investor-facing materials. Docs subphase fits narrative quantitative displays, small multiples, and HTML wrappers that ship beside code and READMEs.
How it compares
Tufte-focused visualization skill bundle, not a general charting library or MCP data warehouse connector.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is Tufte Vdqi Marketplace for?
Builders and analysts who care about graphical integrity and want Claude Code to audit and render Tufte-aligned charts.
When should I use Tufte Vdqi Marketplace?
Use it before publishing any chart in a pitch deck, README, report, or customer-facing dashboard when credibility matters.
How do I add Tufte Vdqi Marketplace to my agent?
Register the Tufte Vdqi Marketplace in Claude Code and enable the tufte-vdqi plugin from the gnurio marketplace manifest.